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, ... -
'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 ... -
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The subtle ether : writing into the 'space between'
(University of St Andrews, 2017-04-24) - ThesisThe ether was proposed by Enlightenment natural philosophers as an undetectable substance filling the space between the stars, that held them in place and supported the propagation of their light across space. In The ...