Educating the Female Orphan: Didactic Discourses in Mid-Eigtheenth-Century Cross-Channel Literature

dc.contributor.advisor	Corporaal, M.C.M.
dc.contributor.advisor	Montoya, A.C.
dc.contributor.author	Siemensma, J.M.J.
dc.date.issued	2016-09-02
dc.description.abstract	This master thesis examines the depiction of the female orphan's education in eighteenth-century novels in translation. Comparing the narrative templates of the didactical experiences of the female orphans in French and English novels and their respective translations, this research examines to what extent these templates were influenced by national, cultural, and social influences. During the eighteenth-century, education became to be regarded as means of cultivating the vulnerable orphan into a productive citizen, the novel reflects this social endeavour. Yet, they simultaneously question the extent to which the orphan can become an accepted member of society, as the orphans ancestry remains unknown. This thesis examines this contradiction in these novels, while analysing the effects of translation methods on the narrative structures of the novels, and comparing the depiction of the female orphan's education with contemporary educational writings.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/3755
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.thesis.faculty	Faculteit der Letteren	en_US
dc.thesis.specialisation	Literary studies	en_US
dc.thesis.studyprogramme	Researchmasters	en_US
dc.thesis.type	Researchmaster	en_US
dc.title	Educating the Female Orphan: Didactic Discourses in Mid-Eigtheenth-Century Cross-Channel Literature	en_US

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