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"As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642) (2011)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2011). "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642). Prose Studies, 1 -18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.568778

When Sara Jones spoke in front of her separatist congregation in 1632, she was opening herself up to criticism for going against scriptural precedents: it was not divinely sanctioned that women should speak in church. Perhaps deriving confidence from... Read More about "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642).

Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theatre”: an examination of contradiction
Thesis
Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theatre”: an examination of contradiction. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/409114

This thesis proposes a new reading of Tennessee Williams which enables his work to be seen as a cohesive dramaturgy which challenges realist and liberal notions of dramatic space, identity, and time. It examines the biographical and historical origin... Read More about Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theatre”: an examination of contradiction.

'Female', 'feminine' and 'feminist' in the work of twentieth-century women novelists
Thesis
'Female', 'feminine' and 'feminist' in the work of twentieth-century women novelists. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/409130

A range of critical approaches, popular, feminist and structuralist, to women's writing is examined and the
strengths and weaknesses of each evaluated. On the basis of this discussion, an attempt is made to develop a critical method more appropriate... Read More about 'Female', 'feminine' and 'feminist' in the work of twentieth-century women novelists.

A unified scene? cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction
Thesis
Shaw, K. A unified scene? cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408423

The twenty-first century has been marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation, transnational mobility and technological change. However, the resulting global interconnectedness reveals the continuation of deeply unequal power structur... Read More about A unified scene? cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction.

Biopolitics and postcolonial theatre: a comparative study of Anglophone plays in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka
Thesis
Chitra Jayathilake, R. M. Biopolitics and postcolonial theatre: a comparative study of Anglophone plays in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408397

This study interrogates the ways in which biopolitics, as represented in Anglophone theatre from the 1970s to the present day, coerces and regulates postcolonial subalterns within the contemporary socio-political milieu. Using seven plays from three... Read More about Biopolitics and postcolonial theatre: a comparative study of Anglophone plays in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka.

The role of the feminine in masculine cycles of death, rebirth and new life: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov and Pasternak
Thesis
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov and Pasternak. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/407071

This thesis uses the narrative framework developed by Theresa de Lauretis’ essay ‘Desire in Narrative’ (1984) to shed new light on the development of male and female characters in texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Bulgakov... Read More about The role of the feminine in masculine cycles of death, rebirth and new life: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov and Pasternak.

George Repton's Pavilion Notebook: a catalogue raisonne
Thesis
Temple, N. H. L. George Repton's Pavilion Notebook: a catalogue raisonne. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/415358

The notebook kept between 1805 and 1818 by George Stanley Repton (1786-1858) when he was assistant to the architect John Nash (1752-1835) is the subject of this study. The book was bought py Brighton Art Gallery, Museums and Royal Pavilion in about 1... Read More about George Repton's Pavilion Notebook: a catalogue raisonne.

Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men
Journal Article
Peacock. (in press). Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men. European Journal of American Studies, https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.10252

Keith Gessen’s debut novel is not a “post-9/11” text in the manner of Falling Man or Terrorist. It is not concerned, explicitly, with the aftermath of the attacks. Like many “post-9/11” texts, however, it asks questions about the ability of twenty-fi... Read More about Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men.

Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition
Thesis
Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/403822

This thesis closes an existing gap within the field of Victorian poetry scholarship, as the relationship between Pre-Raphaelite and working-class poets has yet to be explored in depth by critics, in part because they superficially appear to be dispar... Read More about Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition.