English (School of): Recent submissions
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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 ...