This thesis investigates the ways in which Thomas Hoccleve's writing is conversant with the contested area of the human will, and its manifestation in diverse kinds of love. It originates at the nexus of two systems distinct ...

This book asks how English authors of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and ...

Of the various threads woven into the definitions of Modernism, one is the element of style. One can trace this emphasis on style back to Flaubert’s famous claim, from a letter from January 1852, apropos Madame Bovary: “What ...

In the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare’s biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. ...

This article traces the performance history of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in Iran, focusing on the most recent production of the play directed by Mostafa Koushki (b. 1984), performed between 2019 and 2020 in Tehran, Iran, ...

This thesis studies the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on childhood and Victorian attitudes towards death in the moribund child of Charles Dickens's novels. By the nineteenth century, ...

American novelist Ayn Rand's documented influence on politicians, economists, and businesspeople, makes her work an ideal case study for fiction's impact on society. This thesis considers Rand’s veneration of technological ...

This thesis focuses purely on Protestant identity in three Irish novels by William Trevor, namely: Fools of Fortune, The Silence in the Garden and Reading Turgenev.

When we imagine the forest, we tend towards extremes. It is commonly read as a binary space: as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. When it is ‘good’, it is a remedial setting of wonder and enchantment; when it is ‘bad’, it is a ...