In the 1930s Ireland grasped the opportunity to define itself as a modern free state and the decade is thus one of the most dynamic in Ireland’s history since Independence. Within the space of ten years, Fianna Fail came ...

The introduction to this thesis documents and establishes Ted Hughes' growing interest in American writing while at Cambridge and suggests that Hughes' engagement with American writing from this point in his career onwards ...

This dissertation concentrates upon an important tension manifest across Edgeworth’s prolific writings, and it contends that this tension finally illustrates her unease with the didactic tenets that she (overtly) promoted ...

This dissertation s focus is grounded in literary modernism s engagement with psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic applications in the early 20th century. It examines how the ubiquity of Freud s theories at that time ...

This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise to moral legitimacy and literary respectability of prose fiction from the ...

The general subject of this study is the representation of London in contemporary British literature. In particular, it asks whether literary chronotopes of London participate in the emergence of a dialogic city. In order ...

Abstract After a period of electroshock therapy, Antonin Artaud claimed to have been able to regain his name and sense of self. The dehiscence of name and identification is reprised in Artaud’s final work, the radio ...

This thesis explores continuity and change in the construction of authority and truth claims in accounts of travel to Jerusalem from 1432 to 1632. It takes as its main materials manuscript or printed narratives written ...

The eighteenth century was a period when ambitious Irish dramatists, particularly those based in London, deployed satire as a means of publicly displaying Irish improvement and Enlightenment. The Stage Irishman evolved ...

This thesis examines the post-Cold War work of the American novelists John Updike and Don DeLillo, paying particular attention to the manifestations and treatment of nostalgia in these texts. Focussing primarily on the ...