English (School of): Recent submissions
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The ‘New Prince’ and the problem of lawmaking violence in early modern drama
(University of St Andrews, 2014-09) - ThesisThe present thesis examines the fraught relationship between the sixteenth-century formulations of the theories of sovereign violence, tyranny and usurpation and the manifestations of these ideas on the contemporary English ... -
Women writing women : gender and representation in British 'Golden Age' crime fiction
(University of St Andrews, 2012-11) - ThesisIn this thesis, I examine representations of women and gender in British ‘Golden Age’ crime fiction by writers including Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey ... -
'Imperfect adumbrations' : boys, men, and masculinities in the work of Virginia Woolf
(University of St Andrews, 2014-10) - ThesisThis thesis will suggest how Woolf scholarship’s rich exploration of Virginia Woolf’s representations of girls, women and femininities may be complemented by more systematic feminist study of constructs of masculinities, ... -
Ben Jonson and character
(University of St Andrews, 2015-03) - ThesisThis thesis discusses Ben Jonson’s innovative concept of character as an effect of interactions in dramatic, political and literary spheres. The Introduction observes how the early modern understanding of ‘character’ was ... -
Copious voices in early modern English writing
(University of St Andrews, 2015-03) - ThesisThis thesis takes as its object of study a certain strand of Early Modern English writing characterised by its cornucopian invention, immethodical structure, and creatively exuberant, often chaotic, means of expression. ...