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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. Retrieved from 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.

‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest (2022)
Thesis
Pickering, A. D. (2022). ‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest. (Thesis). Keele University

List of publications submitted in the order published

1) Pickering, Andrew, ‘Witchcraft and evidence in a seventeenth century Somerset parish’, The Local Historian: Journal of the British Association for Local History, Volume 48, Number 1, Januar... Read More about ‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest.

The Brontës' writing community: family, partnership and creative collaboration (2019)
Thesis
Braxton, K. J. (2019). The Brontës' writing community: family, partnership and creative collaboration. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from 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)
Thesis
Woolley, A. (2014). Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from 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.

Hands-on Modernism: representations of the hand in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and modernist literature 1914-1939
Thesis
(2012). Hands-on Modernism: representations of the hand in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and modernist literature 1914-1939

The fragmentation endemic to modernism poses the difficult question of how we read the modernist body. In this thesis, I propose a new critical approach in response to this question – theoretical partialism – whereby looking at the particular and rea... Read More about Hands-on Modernism: representations of the hand in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and modernist literature 1914-1939.

“A plea for a renaissance”:Dorothy Todd’s Modernist experiment in British Vogue, 1922 -1926
Thesis
Carrod, A. J. (2015). “A plea for a renaissance”:Dorothy Todd’s Modernist experiment in British Vogue, 1922 -1926

This is not a fashion paper: Modernism, Dorothy Todd and British Vogue "Style is thinking."

In 1922, six years after its initial inception in England, Vogue magazine began to be edited by Dorothy Todd. Her spell in charge of the already renowned m... Read More about “A plea for a renaissance”:Dorothy Todd’s Modernist experiment in British Vogue, 1922 -1926.

Writing spaces: the Coleridge family’s agoraphobic poetics, 1796-1898
Thesis
Taylor, J. E. (2016). Writing spaces: the Coleridge family’s agoraphobic poetics, 1796-1898

In recent years there has been a rapid growth in interest in the lives and writings of the children of major Romantic poets. Often, this work has suggested that the children felt themselves to be overshadowed by their forebears in ways which had prob... Read More about Writing spaces: the Coleridge family’s agoraphobic poetics, 1796-1898.

Shaw and the late nineteenth century theatre: a study in his dramatic criticism
Thesis
Bhatia, H. L. (1970). Shaw and the late nineteenth century theatre: a study in his dramatic criticism

Shaw was an artist-critic. He started his career as a music critic in 1876. Two years later he turned to novel-writing. He wrote five long novels, which nobody would publish. In 1885 he started book-reviewing for The Pall Mall Gazette. The same year... Read More about Shaw and the late nineteenth century theatre: a study in his dramatic criticism.

Charles Dickens before 1850, with special reference to the child figure in Barnaby Rudge, the old curiosity shop and dombey and son
Thesis
Giddings, R. (1973). Charles Dickens before 1850, with special reference to the child figure in Barnaby Rudge, the old curiosity shop and dombey and son

This is a study of three of Dickens' early novels which all contain a centrally important treatment of a child figure. The aim has been to demonstrate how Dickens uses the figure of the child to explore the deep changes in life, in society, in human... Read More about Charles Dickens before 1850, with special reference to the child figure in Barnaby Rudge, the old curiosity shop and dombey and son.

Art and religion in the work of A. W. N. Pugin: a study with special reference to Pugin's literary achievement
Thesis
Simpson, D. (1973). Art and religion in the work of A. W. N. Pugin: a study with special reference to Pugin's literary achievement

In a General Introduction which forms the first chapter, the provenance of the ideas propagated by Pugin in his work, and of the European Gothic Revival movement in more general terms, is examined. The exchange of ideas between Pugin and his colleagu... Read More about Art and religion in the work of A. W. N. Pugin: a study with special reference to Pugin's literary achievement.

Some aspects of the treatment of the industrial and urban working classes in British prose fiction, 1832-1914
Thesis
Miles, E. C. (1975). Some aspects of the treatment of the industrial and urban working classes in British prose fiction, 1832-1914

This study of attitudes to and the presentation of the industrial and urban working classes in prose fiction written between 1832 and 1914 begins with two chapters on the urban environment. The first, which concentrates on books written before 1880,... Read More about Some aspects of the treatment of the industrial and urban working classes in British prose fiction, 1832-1914.

Oscar Wilde and Frederick Rolfe: two Catholic converts in 1890s' english literature
Thesis
Cruise, C. (1986). Oscar Wilde and Frederick Rolfe: two Catholic converts in 1890s' english literature

This thesis begins with an examination of a theme crucial to the understanding of the role of Catholicism - its drawbacks and attractions - for the English would-be convert. I choose to look initially at two converts, Thomas Arnold jnr and 'John Oliv... Read More about Oscar Wilde and Frederick Rolfe: two Catholic converts in 1890s' english literature.

Some aspects of the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries
Thesis
(1982). Some aspects of the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries

Evidence for the Baptismal and Eucharistic liturgies used by the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries is at the moment confined to a few incidental references in the writings of St. Patrick and of fEastidiusf - in so far as these r... Read More about Some aspects of the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries.