English Theses: Recent submissions
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Contemporary poetry translation into Scots – methods and meanings
(2023-11-28) - ThesisThe following doctoral thesis is comprised of two parts. The first part, THE SET, is an essay on translating poetry into Scots at present day. The essay’s four chapters explore four central issues in contemporary Scots ... -
Evolutionary regression in Victorian children's literature
(2023-11-28) - ThesisThe publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species coincided with a growing number of fantastical children’s texts in Victorian Britain. This thesis examines how children’s literature envisions evolutionary change ... -
Capturing moments : reading literature as an archive of photographic history c. 1839- c.1930
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-29) - ThesisIn this thesis I study three writers - Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Amy Levy (1861-1889) and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - for traces, nuances and evidences which capture the precarious position of photography and its ... -
Children’s play – the early modern English boy player in the children’s company and the men’s company
(2023-11-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the status and representation of the boy performer in both children’s company plays and men’s company plays by William Shakespeare, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, John Marston, and Ben Jonson. Through ...