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 demonstrates revenge tragedy's ongoing engagement with early modern law in its myriad forms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. I begin by showing in the introduction the relevance of an ...

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 ...

[Exerpt from the final paragraph of the introduction, page 65] Likewise, the novels considered in the chapters that follow are not bound by a rationalist imperative, but articulate their responses to evil in creative and ...

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, ...

This thesis explores the cultural significance of music to Travellers, as described in their own words. By examining the songs included in Traveller memoirs, it aims to reflect cultural practices and concerns which are ...

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 ...

In setting out to understand the construction and function of landscapes in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence, I realised that Cooper’s landscapes were not unique but confonned to a series of tropes or paradigms ...