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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Beyond the pale horse : animals, substitution, and the cost of romance in the 'Orlando furioso'
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06-26) - ThesisThis study responds to Patricia Parker's landmark account of endlessly expansive romance, suggesting that the genre's structural deferrals and excesses come at a steep hidden price. Like other early modern discourses—rhetoric, ... -
A note on the text of Manfred
(2016) - Journal article -
'This may be my war after all' : the non-combatant poetry of W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas, and Stevie Smith
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06-26) - ThesisThis research aims to illuminate how and why war challenges the limits of poetic representation, through an analysis of non-combatant poetry of the Second World War. It is motivated by the question: how can one portray, ... -
'The trade of application' : political and social appropriations of Ben Jonson, 1660-1776
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - ThesisThis thesis is an analysis of the manner in which the persona and works of Ben Jonson were appropriated – between the Restoration, in 1660, and the retirement of David Garrick, in 1776 – to reflect the political and social ... -
Introducing the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature
(2018-10-01) - Journal articleRose Harris-Birtill introduces the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings. Harris-Birtill provides a critical introduction to David Mitchell’s complete works, before discussing ...
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