English (School of): Recent submissions
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Battling the closet : queerness in 1940s British literature
(2025-07-02) - ThesisIn 1940s Britain, the upheaval of gender ‘norms’ during the Second World War destabilised the structures of the heterosexual matrix and generated a wartime climate that was, in many respects, queer. Critics working in the ... -
The wicked and the divine : the influence of Alfred Tennyson's Vivien on literature and art, 1859-1951
(2025-07-02) - ThesisThis thesis examines the legacy of Alfred Tennyson’s Vivien, the wicked enchantress of the Idylls of the King (1859), in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American Arthurian literature and art. Chapter 1 details ... -
My litel suffisaunce : humility and its compatriots in Middle English literature
(2024-12-03) - ThesisTropes of humility are as ubiquitous in the literature of Medieval Europe as they are understudied in the modern academic literature. While many individual examples are dealt with frequently, a comprehensive investigation ...