This thesis examines the subject of menstrual blood in gothic and horror literature and film. It aims to map and locate negative constructions and representations of the menstrual body within the genre while also pointing ...

This thesis accounts for the growing professionalisation of Katherine Mansfield as a writer between the years of 1910 and 1922, and addresses the ways in which the publication contexts in which her writing first appeared ...

The life of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was characterised by one event which was to have a lasting influence on her self-determination as a person and a writer. This event was her move in 1782 to Edgeworthstown, a small ...

George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, ...

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 ...

This thesis is a reappraisal of John Berryman’s achievement that stresses his poetry’s critical agency over and against the prevailing tendency to describe it in narrow confessional terms. Questioning the received view of ...

This thesis looks at the work of three poets, Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) and Thomas Kinsella (1928- ), in order both to raise the profile of allegory as a modality at work in twentieth-century ...

‘Poetry’, Wallace Stevens said, 'is the expression of the experience of poetry' (CPP904). This thesis explores the connection in Stevens’ writing between ‘the experience of poetry’ and the poetic temperament. Stevens viewed ...