Beyond realism and postmordernism by Chatfield, T, Thomas Edward Francis Chatfield

Desperate remedies and vital lies: art, literature, and escapism, 1840-1914 by Daniels, HG

“…This thesis uncovers a specifically ambivalent escapist tradition across genres in the writing of the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and the memoirist and man of letters Edmund Gosse (1849-1928). …”

Spurious Victorians: imitation and the nineteenth-century novel by Abraham, A

“…Retrieving bibliographical environments, it demonstrates how plagiaristic, parodic, and willfully unoriginal works impacted on the careers of three novelists: Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton, and George Eliot.…”

Virtual play in the Victorian novel by Gao, T

“…<p>Novelists in the mid-nineteenth century speculated about the specificity and concreteness of their fictions, and reflected on what it meant to engage with imaginary objects and worlds. …”

Nashe and satire by Stern, T

“…This chapter examines the work of Thomas Nashe and its unsettled relationship to the genre of satire. …”

Women oppression and emancipation through application of amazonian and masculinist theories in selected novels by Nawal El Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta by Abdulrahaman, Abdulwaheed Idris

“…This current study, through a textual analysis, intends to fill the gap by examining selected novels of two female novelists from Egypt and Nigeria through application of Amazon feminism of Thomas Gramstad (1999) and its concepts of Androgyny, or masculine-feminine duality of gender and Masculinist theory of Chinweizu (1990) and its concepts of mother power, bride power and wife power. …”
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‘Alpha-mädchen sind wir alle’ [we’re all alpha girls]: subjectivity and agency in contemporary pop-feminist writing in the US, Britain and Germany by Spiers, E

“…My thesis reveals hitherto un-discussed lines of literary and critical influence on the contemporary British and German novelists emanating from Acker and Gaitskill, suggesting that their texts may be viewed as representative of a critical pop-literary interest, spanning approximately three decades and shifting across cultural contexts, in the encounter between female subjectivity and agency in the face of late-capitalist manifestations of social constraint.…”

Iron times and golden ages: nostalgia and the Mid-Victorian historical novel by Cassidy, CM

“…This thesis suggests that nostalgia was an important novelistic trope during the nineteenth century and argues that it quickly became enmeshed with the historical novel in a way that has seldom been acknowledged. …”