Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm (2023)
Thesis
Mousinho, G. A. (2023). Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm. (Thesis). Keele University

‘Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant, elegant, eloquent, and without being able to compose a correct sentence, or spe... Read More about Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm.

Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism (2023)
Journal Article
Lustig. (2023). Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism. Henry James Review, 44(1), 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0004

This article offers two case studies. The first examines James’s encounters with medieval buildings in his early travel writings. The second takes as its starting point James’s involvement in The Quest of the Holy Grail, a text which accompanied an 1... Read More about Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism.

‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). ‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman. Neohelicon, 627 - 644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-022-00666-6

The overall aims of this article are to revisit one of the key contributions to narratology of the late twentieth century, Juri Lotman's The origin of plot in the light of typology of 1973, to attempt to determine its place in Lotman's work as a whol... Read More about ‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman.

1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel (2021)
Thesis
Gufar, S. (2021). 1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel. (Thesis). Keele University

My thesis investigates space, hauntings and youth culture in Manchester with two projects: a novel and a critical dissertation.

The novel is a coming-of-age story that takes place in Ashton-under-Lyne. Modern English explores the experience of gro... Read More about 1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel.

4:23 PM, Relaxant (2021)
Thesis
Bolger, L. S. A. (2021). 4:23 PM, Relaxant. (Thesis). Keele University

The practical component of this thesis is a collection of poems entitled 4:23 PM, Relaxant, which consists of an original collection of verse written mainly in the confessional tradition. The collection addresses a number of themes including family a... Read More about 4:23 PM, Relaxant.

May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte. Feminist Modernist Studies, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2020.1850146

This article surveys May Sinclair’s writing on the Brontë sisters in order to chart her revisionist impulse with relation to their reputation, her anxiety about her own literary reputation, genius in women and intellectual self-sufficiency. I argue t... Read More about May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte.

Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett (2020)
Thesis
Scragg, H. L. (2020). Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett. (Thesis). Keele University

‘I have a great deal to say, and I mean to say it. As for my work being taken seriously, we shall see about that’.
Arnold Bennett, 1909
(Bennett, letter to Pinker dated 17 May 1909, in Letters, Vol. I, p. 123.)

Arnold Bennett occupies a somewha... Read More about Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett.

The Dental Record, Miscellany and the Mediator as Crank (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). The Dental Record, Miscellany and the Mediator as Crank. https://doi.org/10.2307/26868285

'No abstract'

Avenue (rue) Coloniale (2019)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2019). Avenue (rue) Coloniale. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2019.1649091

This prose-poem is part of a larger critical-creative project on Montreal, which mixes memoir, feminist theory and literature. A key intertext is Nicole Brossard's French Kiss (1974), a celebration of language and desire. In Brossard’s counter-cultur... Read More about Avenue (rue) Coloniale.

The poetics of permeation: a commentary on the practice inScattering Eva, Dammtor and The Abandoned Settlements (2019)
Thesis
Sheard, J. R. J. (2019). The poetics of permeation: a commentary on the practice inScattering Eva, Dammtor and The Abandoned Settlements. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414420

Gentrification in the House! John Lanchester’s Capital, Brian Platzer’s Bed-Stuy is Burning, and the House as Nexus of Glocal Forces. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Peacock. (2019, July). Gentrification in the House! John Lanchester’s Capital, Brian Platzer’s Bed-Stuy is Burning, and the House as Nexus of Glocal Forces. Presented at Literary London Conference: Neighbours of Ours, University of Notre Dame, London

No abstract available.

Neural Caption Generation for News Images (2018)
Journal Article
Batra, V., He, Y., & Vogiatzis, G. (2018). Neural Caption Generation for News Images

Automatic caption generation of images has gained significant interest. It gives rise to a lot of interesting image-related applications. For example, it could help in image/video retrieval and management of vast amount of multimedia data available o... Read More about Neural Caption Generation for News Images.

“What they seek for is in themselves: Quaker Language and Thought in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American literature." (2008)
Journal Article
(2008). “What they seek for is in themselves: Quaker Language and Thought in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American literature.". Quaker Studies, 196 - 215

This paper argues that Quakerism was an important influence on a number of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American writers. Looking at the work of, among others, Charles Brockden Brown, Robert Montgomery Bird, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Greenlea... Read More about “What they seek for is in themselves: Quaker Language and Thought in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American literature.".

'Who was John Bartram? Literary and epistolary depictions of the Quaker' (2005)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2005). 'Who was John Bartram? Literary and epistolary depictions of the Quaker'

A Programmed Course in Old English (1969)
Book
(1969). A Programmed Course in Old English

Old English language teaching resource originally published by Keele University Library in 1969.

Void, a comic novel: practice-led research into humour
Thesis
Latham, P. (2017). Void, a comic novel: practice-led research into humour

This thesis comprises a critical essay and practice-led research in the form of a full-length novel, Void, that constitutes my original contribution to knowledge.

The critical essay comprises three principal chapters, the first of which is a memoi... Read More about Void, a comic novel: practice-led research into humour.

Blake, Wordsworth and late eighteenth century radicalism
Thesis
(1979). Blake, Wordsworth and late eighteenth century radicalism

This thesis aims to locate the work of two poets, William Blake and William Wordsworth, within the spectrum of late eighteenth century radicalism. The first section of the thesis examines the radicalism of the 1790s. It contrasts the radicalism of bo... Read More about Blake, Wordsworth and late eighteenth century radicalism.

The technique and development of Disraeli's novels
Thesis
(1979). The technique and development of Disraeli's novels

This thesis reveals how Disraeli adapts and develops fictional techniques. The nature of the less complex of these is defined in Part I, using five early novels. Ch. I establishes a characteristic and recurring trio, the hero, strong woman and sage,... Read More about The technique and development of Disraeli's novels.

Vernacular writings in the medieval libraries of Great Britain
Thesis
(1980). Vernacular writings in the medieval libraries of Great Britain

The thesis comprises four volumes: an introductory discussion; two volumes containing lists of religious and other institutions with information on the works in the vernacular languages which they are known to have owned; and a volume of indices and... Read More about Vernacular writings in the medieval libraries of Great Britain.

A Birmingham psychogeography: continuity and closure (Volume 2)
Thesis
Prendergast, C. A. (2015). A Birmingham psychogeography: continuity and closure (Volume 2)

There has been some sociological interest in MG Rover’s decline and widespread deindustrialisation in Birmingham. However, little research has considered the proximity of
Rover’s closure in 2005 to another seminal event for the city – the opening of... Read More about A Birmingham psychogeography: continuity and closure (Volume 2).