The focus of this thesis is to examine the construction of femme fatale representations of nineteenth century England, particularly in mid- Victorian to fin-de-siècle art and literature, thus tracing radical and significant ...

This thesis aims to reconceptualize Virginia Woolf’s 1933 novel Flush: A Biography. The novel has been largely ignored by the intelligentsia due to its subject matter: a dog. Although various critics have attempted ...

This thesis explores the elements of fear and the supernatural as seen through the lens of narrative and psychoanalytical theory focusing on the novels Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Howard Philips Lovecraft’s At The ...

Gothic fiction is one of the most interesting and influential forms of literature. Its scope has reached many genres, periods and epochs, and it has engendered numerous offspring since its origin. One of its most famous ...

This thesis will explore and scrutinize the literary genre of the formation novel or novel of education, formally known as the Bildungsroman, in order to develop a solid yet encompassing comprehension of this somewhat ...

This thesis explores the way in which William Makepeace Thackeray‘s Vanity Fair and George Eliot‘s Middlemarch present a different point of view towards their “bad” women than the one usually expected in the Victorian ...

Film adaptation is a relatively new and popular form of studying texts, which is very important to our society because of the effect that adaptation has on it. The differences between the “original” text and adaptation ...

This thesis situates Yann Martel’s Life of Pi within the area of sea studies, analyzing the novel at the intersection of ecocritical ethics, social histories at sea, shipwreck allusions in literary texts, and the burgeoning ...