English (School of)
The School of English has a dynamic research culture, which involves staff, postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows in attending and organizing international conferences and literary festivals; in undertaking collaborative research and archival projects; as well as in the individual work of scholarly editing and the writing of monographs and works of literature. Our research work is divided into four groups, of which staff are members, and postgraduate students are associate members. These groups are: Mediaeval and Renaissance; 18th Century, Romantic and Victorian; Modern and Contemporary; and Creative Writing.
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What John Shirley said about Adam : authorship and attribution in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20
(V&R unipress, 2017-07-26) - Book itemThe scribe John Shirley copied many short Middle English poems, including several by Geoffrey Chaucer, and is often either the earliest or the only copyist to provide authorship ascriptions. Cambridge Trinity College MS ... -
The continuous flight from wonder : an ecocritical analysis of the tensions between natural history and modern science in Andrea Barrett's fiction ; How muskrat made the world and other stories
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis thesis comprises a critical component, The Continuous Flight From Wonder: An Ecocritical Analysis of Tensions Between Natural History and Modern Science in Andrea Barrett’s Fiction, and a creative component, How ... -
A second violation : rape myths in contemporary, popular British and American writing; and, The Alden case
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisThis thesis and related work of fiction explores the representation of rape in contemporary British and American writing, with a particular focus on the use of rape myths in narratives about sexual violence. It evaluates ... -
'On mentioning the unmentionable' : feminism, little magazines, and the case of Rebecca West
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisRecent projects conducted by The Universities of De Montfort, Nottingham, and Sussex, U.K. and Brown University in Providence, U.S.A., have highlighted the wealth of under-researched material contained in early ... -
Tortured words : the first Soviet Writers Congress, Moscow 1934 : socialist realism and Soviet reality in Stalin's Russia 1934-1939
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisBoth the academic and the fiction element of the thesis concerns events in the Soviet Union and elsewhere in Europe in the 1930s. The first element informs the second. The academic portion is based on the first Soviet ...
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