Contributions to the project from students
BA and MA theses.
BA/MA theses
BA and MA theses: we have a wide range of topics in the field covered by the project. Students who are interested in writing a thesis in the context of the project can select a topic by enrolling into the Blackboard module called Scriptieseminar; others are invited to get in touch with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
Completed theses
BA:
- Marilyn Hedges (2009), "Prescriptivism and its effect in Late Modern English novels: Lindley Murray, Preposition Stranding and Bleak House"
- Matthijs Smits (2008), "Rhetorical Prescription, Style, and Composition in John Whitaker's Letter Correspondence (1774-1804)"
- Roxanne But (2008), "I know nought of your ways down south - A Linguistic Analysis of Northern Dialect Speech in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novel North and South"
- Stefan B. Pack (2008), "The Old Bailey Proceedings - Trials and other criminal narratives of 18th century London"
- Carlene Tromp (2007), "Wills and social connections in Eighteenth-century England"
- Vera Willems (2007), " 'Dear Fanny, ...', 'Dearest Fanny,...': A sociolinguistic study of John Keats's relationships with Fanny Keats and Fanny Brawne"
- Yihua Mu (2006), "Wherewith in eighteenth-century published texts - A Study of the Use of Where-Prepositions in Introducing Relative Clauses in Eighteenth-Century English"
- Marjolein Meindersma (2006), "'Powerless Language' and Prejudice. An Analysis of the Main Characters' Speech in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Frances Burney's Evelina"
- Geertrui Geraets (2009), "Prescriptivism in Eighteenth-Century England: Preposition Stranding in the Journals of Fanny Burney"
- Denise van Kerkwijk (2009), "From breakfast to dessert: The structural and social development of the cookery recipe as a text type between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries"
- Marleen Smid (2006), "Phrasal verbs in the early letters of George IV, the Prince of Wales (1762-1830) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)"
- Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw (2006), "Travels through the letters of no common-place man. Looking into the use of epistolary formulas by Benjamin Rush, an eighteenth-century American letter writer"
- Froukje Henstra (2006), "A Family Affair. Social Network Analsyis and the Language of the Walpoles"