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"As Far As You Can Go": Carnality and the Catholic Conscience in David Lodge's Fiction
This thesis investigates the evolution of David Lodge's philosophy and depiction of sexuality and Catholicism in four of his novels spanning four decades: The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965), How Far Can You Go? ...
Elevated by Art: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Literary Ambitions to Transcend Sensation
(2021-05-11)
By any measure, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was one of the most successful novelists of the Victorian era, publishing more than eighty novels between 1860 and 1915 and earning the title of “queen of the circulating libraries.” ...
“Dead, to begin with”: The Role of Ghosts in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
(2022-05-10)
An exploration of the role of the ghosts in Charles Dickens’s "A Christmas Carol", specifically considering the influence of religion, the eighteenth century Gothic tradition, and the nineteenth century ghost story on ...
Sacred Nature: Metaphysics of Place in William Blake, Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney
(2024-01-04)
Abstract
William Blake, Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney are read as practitioners of ecopoetry (in Jonathan Bate’s phrase) and ecotheology. Where each poet locates the sacred is plotted against their depictions of the ...