“Partial solutions to the menace”: Philip K. Dick and the Politics of Genre (2021)
Thesis
Johnston Jones, R. D. (2021). “Partial solutions to the menace”: Philip K. Dick and the Politics of Genre. (Thesis). Keele University

In an essay published in 1955, titled ‘Pessimism in Science Fiction’, Philip K. Dick posits that science fiction (sf) cannot function as social critique without conveying a tentative utopian impulse: a “partial solution to the menace”. In the unfoldi... Read More about “Partial solutions to the menace”: Philip K. Dick and the Politics of Genre.

A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton (2020)
Thesis
Bailey, D. (2020). A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis represents the first sustained examination of Sexton’s early and unpublished poetry, which was written between 1956 and 1960. Additionally, it also represents the first detailed scholarly attempt to discuss Sexton’s creative practice in r... Read More about A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton.

Those the dead left behind: Gentrification and Haunting in Contemporary Brooklyn Fictions. (2019)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2019). Those the dead left behind: Gentrification and Haunting in Contemporary Brooklyn Fictions. Studies in American Fiction, 131-156. https://doi.org/10.1353/saf.2019.0005

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’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer (2019)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2019). ’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer. Québec Studies, 68, https://doi.org/10.3828/qs.2019.18

This article considers representations of exurban spaces in Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer (2009), positioning it in relation to a broader take-up of “regional” spaces in Québec fiction. It argues that Delvaux’s novel is prescient in its blurring of dis... Read More about ’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer.

Mocking the Master: Early Responses to The Sacred Fount (2017)
Journal Article
Lustig. (2017). Mocking the Master: Early Responses to The Sacred Fount. The Henry James Review, 38(1), 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2017.0005

Reviews of The Sacred Fount (1901) have previously been reprinted in a small number of source books, but it is now possible to extend our knowledge of the early reception of James’s most controversial and enigmatic novel. This article reprints select... Read More about Mocking the Master: Early Responses to The Sacred Fount.

A Tale of Too Many Cities: The Clash’s ‘Ghetto Defendant’ and Transnational Disruptions (2010)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2010). A Tale of Too Many Cities: The Clash’s ‘Ghetto Defendant’ and Transnational Disruptions. Symbiosis, 19 -41

‘America through the looking-glass, lost’: conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975
Thesis
(2015). ‘America through the looking-glass, lost’: conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975

This thesis brings together two distinct areas of scholarship – trauma studies and comics. I focus on representations of trauma, specifically trauma arising from conflict and war, in post-Vietnam American comics. Trauma studies is an established area... Read More about ‘America through the looking-glass, lost’: conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975.

Fictional representations of dissociative identity disorder in contemporary American fiction
Thesis
(2017). Fictional representations of dissociative identity disorder in contemporary American fiction

The representation of mental health disorders and syndromes has increased in contemporary literature, film and television. Characters with disorders and syndromes such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, autism and Asperger’s syndrome, Tourette’s synd... Read More about Fictional representations of dissociative identity disorder in contemporary American fiction.

Writing complexity: the American novel and systems realism
Thesis
Brindley, N. (2014). Writing complexity: the American novel and systems realism

Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the last few decades, the influence of complex systems science on recent American fiction has not yet been comprehensively documented. I argue that a signi... Read More about Writing complexity: the American novel and systems realism.

The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville
Thesis
McGettigan, K. E. (2014). The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville

This thesis examines Herman Melville's representations of the material text and the literary marketplace in the novels he published between 1846 and 1857. Thus far,
scholarship has emphasized Melville's hostility towards literary production in mid­... Read More about The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville.