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King Arthur in British Literature, 1660-1815 (2024)
Thesis
Blaney, A. L. King Arthur in British Literature, 1660-1815. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/956346

This thesis explores the literary afterlives of the Arthurian legend across the long eighteenth century by examining the ways in which reworkings of Arthur intervene in debates about historiography, gender, class, and national identity.
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Post-millennial South African theatre: politics, legacies and futures (2019)
Thesis
Croton, R. Post-millennial South African theatre: politics, legacies and futures. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413836

During both the apartheid and post-apartheid eras, South African theatre has been a vital source of resistance and creativity. South African theatre-makers have proven the continuing vitality of representing resistance through postcolonial drama. The... Read More about Post-millennial South African theatre: politics, legacies and futures.

The Brontës' writing community: family, partnership and creative collaboration (2019)
Thesis
Braxton, K. J. The Brontës' writing community: family, partnership and creative collaboration. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413096

In 1846 Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë published Poems under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. An immediate interest regarding the identity of these mysterious Bells emerged. With the publication of their novels the following year the Br... Read More about The Brontës' writing community: family, partnership and creative collaboration.

Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal (2014)
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Woolley, A. Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/403807

Existing studies of Elizabeth Siddal are largely biographical and this has coloured the presently limited analysis of her poetry, and to a lesser extent, her art. Where poetic and artistic commentary has been published, it tends to be used as a means... Read More about Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal.

‘This loose, drifting material of life’: experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing (2010)
Thesis
Regis, A. K. ‘This loose, drifting material of life’: experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/713668

Reading life writing as textual performance, this thesis identifies and explores different permutations of “experiment” in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing. I trace the response of multiple “acts” of (self-) representation to conflicting... Read More about ‘This loose, drifting material of life’: experiments in nineteenth and twentieth-century life writing.