All Outputs (6)

The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810 (2025)
Thesis
Jones, T. D. The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109368

This thesis examines the role of emotions in a selection of Romantic-period gothic novels: Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, Charlotte Smith’s The Old Manor House, Regina Maria Roche’s Children of the Abbey, and Charlotte Dacre’s... Read More about The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810.

Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820 (2025)
Thesis
Stanbridge, E. Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109729

This dissertation assesses the contributions of three biographers – Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), Anna Seward (1742-1809), and Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – to the development of British life-writing in the period 1780-1820. This examination of th... Read More about Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820.

Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820 (2025)
Thesis
Hardiman, E. R. Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109990

This thesis explores the subject of elite masculinity in the late eighteenth century. Specifically, I focus on the discussion of, and resistance to, normative conceptions of genteel masculinity and how efforts to refashion and reimagine those dominan... Read More about Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820.

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.
Commencing... Read More about King Arthur in British Literature, 1660-1815.

Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India (2018)
Thesis
Stringer, G. P. Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411478

This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to work in India, and focuses on his portraiture in a quarter-century that saw Britain defeat European rivals during the Seven Years’ War, gain India, an... Read More about Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India.

Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67) (2017)
Thesis
Pritchett, E. R. J. Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67). (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/409157

Pilgrimage (1915--1938/67), Dorothy Richardson’s long modernist novel of female consciousness, has a history of mischaracterisation. The first novel to be termed stream of consciousness, Pilgrimage offers an account of New Woman, Miriam Hend... Read More about Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67).