English (School of): Recent submissions
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George Eliot and Italy : a discussion of the relationship between English and Italian literature in the second half of the nineteenth century through the eyes of George Eliot
(University of St Andrews, 1998-02) - ThesisIt is evident both from George Eliot's biography and from an analysis of her novels that the English novelist showed a deep interest in Italy and its culture. This fact puts forward a double set of questions: first of all ... -
George Eliot and George Sand : a comparative study
(University of St Andrews, 1990-07) - ThesisThe thesis is a comparative study of George Eliot and George Sand. Numerous references to Sand in Eliot's correspondence, as well as in Lewes's criticism, show that the link between the two female authors was more profound ... -
The unseen window - 'Middlemarch', mind and morality
(University of St Andrews, 1991-07) - ThesisMiddlemarch is the novel at the centre of this thesis. George Eliot's writing, and Middlemarch in particular, is the paradigm of what has come to be known as Classic Realist fiction. In reading Middlemarch, it seems, one ... -
Money and character in the novels of Charles Dickens
(University of St Andrews, 1998-05) - ThesisThis thesis discusses the relationship between money and character in the novels of Charles Dickens, concentrating mainly on the later novels, from Dombey & Son onwards. Money is extremely important in Dickens's social ... -
Carlyle and Ruskin : aspects of the relationship of their thought
(University of St Andrews, 1963) - Thesis