English (School of): Recent submissions
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Unlocking the door of learning : the development of the Scottish university novel in the nineteenth century
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisMy thesis is concerned with how Scottish higher education is described in nineteenth-century literature. There was a literary trend of University novels in Great Britain as a whole throughout the nineteenth century. Although ... -
A study of Scotland's relationship to the British Empire as depicted in the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John Buchan
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThis thesis explores the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire as depicted in the work of three Scottish writers: Robert Louis Stevenson, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John Buchan. The aim is to reassess the ... -
Aspects of modern Scottish literature and ecological thought
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - Thesis'Aspects of Modern Scottish Literature and Ecological Thought' argues that the science and philosophy of 'ecology' has had a profound impact on Scottish literature since the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and ... -
The field-sized republic : landscape, lyricism and versions of Scottish identity in Douglas Dunn's poetry, from ̀Terry Street' to ̀The Year's Afternoon'
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisMy thesis gives a Central-Eastern European reading of the development of Dunn's poetic representations of Scotland, with special emphasis on the uses of landscape and nature poetry, including versions of the pastoral. ... -
Tracing the shadow of 'No mean city' : aspects of class and gender in selected modern Scottish urban working-class fiction
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThis Ph.D. dissertation examines the influence of Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long's novel No Mean City (1935) on the representation of working-class subjectivity in modem Scottish urban fiction. The novel helped ...