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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"PN0441 Literary History"”.
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"The inlegebill scribling of my imprompt pen": the production and circulation of literary miscellany manuscripts in Jacobean Scotland, c. 1580-c.1630
… of early modern Scotland, as evident from three literary miscellany manuscripts produced and circulated in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Each of the main three chapters will consider one miscellany manuscript in its complex totality, dealing with questions of provenance, …
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The Police and the Periodical: Policing and Detection in Victorian Journalism and the Rise of Detective Fiction, c. 1840-1900
… officers in new ways – notably including as literary guides and protectors for authors wishing to explore growing urban centres in mid-Victorian cities which had been deemed ‘criminal’. ‘Detective fiction’ in the mid-Victorian era, therefore, was characterised by trust in the police officer …
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THE WRITING LIFE OF ROBERT STORY, 1795-1860: ‘THE CONSERVATIVE BARD’
This thesis explores the writing life of the Northumbrian labouring-class poet Robert Story (1795-1860) who, during the political turmoil of the 1830s, achieved national celebrity for writing a series of songs and poems for Peel’s Conservative party. In his unpublished autobiography (c.1853) he …
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Anglo-Scottish succession tracts during the late Elizabethan period, 1595-1603
… a content-based study rather than a materialist history of the book style work, which draws its methodology from literary analysis and the history of political thought. It contains a full discussion of the ‘succession debate’ in its widest sense, engaging with the debates on the nature of …
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
… and Kaja Silverman); an engagement with current literary-critical scholarship in Decadence (Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Bram Dijkstra and Rita Felski), and in Sacher-Masoch (Nick Mansfield, John K. Noyes, and Anita Phillips), and his influence on Decadent writers.
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Writing the behind: Schreber, Genet, Joyce, and the poetics of the penetrated male body
… of erotic thought. It does this by focusing on literary representations of the penetrated male body and challenging the standard approaches to masculine embodiment as a form of denial or absence: the male body - in its always already penetrated state - as a presence, though one which lurks …
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The cultural value of Shakespeare in twenty-first-century publicly-funded theatre in England
This thesis argues that in the plural cultural context of the twenty-first century the value of Shakespeare resides in his identity as a free and flexible resource. This adaptable Shakespeare is valuable to theatres because they are dialectical spaces. Free-resource Shakespeare is able to contain a …
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She is Rhodesia
She is Rhodesia is the story of a daughter who, in an effort to escape her husband’s recent affair, arrives from Zimbabwe to visit family and friends at her father’s house at 20 Madeley Road in west London. Her pain is cushioned by her efforts to hand craft items from java print fabric. While in …
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Metaphors in translation : an investigation of a sample of Quran metaphors with reference to three English versions of the Quran
This study aims to investigate the challenges of translating metaphors of the Quran. It examines English speakers' understanding of a number of Quran metaphors which are selected from three well known English versions of the Quran translations. In addition, the study highlights the root causes …
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The transforming muses: stage appropriations of the gothic novel in the 1790s.
This thesis offers a theoretically-aware discussion of the stage appropriations of Gothic novels and dramas in the 1790. Works discussed in detail include: *The Monk*, *The Romance of the Forest*, *The Castle Spectre* and their adaptations, re-writings and afterlives. The author examines many …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… of this thesis is to amalgamate philosophy and history of science with literature to achieve an overview of changing ideas of the animal/human divide during the nineteenth century. Drawing on the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julia Kristeva and Giorgio Agamben. I consider this …
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