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Poetic Inheritance: working-class women of the Liverpool-Irish diaspora and cultural and social hybridities (2025)
Thesis
Palmer, J. V. (2025). Poetic Inheritance: working-class women of the Liverpool-Irish diaspora and cultural and social hybridities. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1279920

This thesis comprises both creative and critical work which investigates the cultural inheritance of working-class women in the Liverpool-Irish diaspora and translates the resultant discoveries into the creation of a poetry collection which is consci... Read More about Poetic Inheritance: working-class women of the Liverpool-Irish diaspora and cultural and social hybridities.

Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry (2025)
Thesis
Merrydew, A. J. Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109501

Despite the increasing prevalence of collage experiments by feminist poets since the twenty-first century, the use of such methods to shape feminist politics in poetry has not been widely researched. The limited research on collage aesthetics often p... Read More about Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry.

Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective (2025)
Thesis
Yang, S. Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1111051

This thesis, combining an extended essay and a creative project of equivalent length, explores the narrative possibilities of interactive films. It focuses on the potential of alternative plotlines to explore the ‘what-if’ story in the parallel unive... Read More about Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective.

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. 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. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/597519

‘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. 1. Modern English. 2. The regenerating city: space, hauntings and youth culture in the post-millennial Manchester novel. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/421283

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.

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. Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/416565

‘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.

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.

“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.".