English (School of): Recent submissions
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The two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern : a study of the relationship between Middle English romance and Gothic literature
(2023-11-28) - ThesisThe Gothic genre developed alongside the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiquarian project to discover, collect and publish Middle English romances, but what exactly is the nature of the relationship between the Gothic ... -
Off with their heads : decapitation, gender, and power in medieval English literature
(2023-06-13) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on opposite-sex decapitations in Medieval English Literature. It aims to demonstrate that beheading is a kind of violence that is always symbolic and never only about the death of its object. Indeed, ... -
Girls are pretty, too
(2023-06-13) - Thesis“Girls Are Pretty, Too” is the writer’s journey of figuring out who she is and part of a larger project that focuses mostly on the personal memoir instead of essay topics that will be added in future parts. From her rough ... -
Disappearing heteronormativity? The challenges of/to masculinity in lesbian-themed American paperbacks of the 1950s and early 1960s
(2023-06-13) - ThesisIn the two decades following World War II, the retail of books in North America migrated from bookstores to places of regular public footfall. Produced cheaply, paperbacks were displayed with their covers facing outward. ...