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“Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective (2024)
Thesis
Maddalena, H. “Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571280

This dissertation deepens and extends the modern field of study of “golden age” mystery authors Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham by closely examining the two writers’ individual development of the classical trope of the gentleman detective.
Since i... Read More about “Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective.

Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir (2020)
Thesis
Knightley, R. (2020). Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4923074

This thesis comprises a novel and an exegesis. Anything But Summertime is a theatrical literary domestic noir novel of London theatre. Set designer Joanna ‘Very’ Cross, ex-Catholic blue-haired goth, is about to light her last cigarette before quittin... Read More about Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir.

The Legacy of Empire and the Politics of the Family in the Neo-Historical Fictions of Egypt, Ireland and India (2019)
Thesis
Alharthi, L. S. A. (2019). The Legacy of Empire and the Politics of the Family in the Neo-Historical Fictions of Egypt, Ireland and India. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4912925

This thesis addresses neo-historical novels dealing with the legacy of the British Empire and its enduring impact on family. It focuses on the colonial experience in three countries colonized by Britain: Egypt, Ireland and India. It examines fives ne... Read More about The Legacy of Empire and the Politics of the Family in the Neo-Historical Fictions of Egypt, Ireland and India.

Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic (2019)
Thesis
Crofts, M. R. Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4739178

The Gothic tyrant is a figure that not only plays a vital role in generating fear and manipulating the balance of power in Gothic fiction, but one that has survived throughout the mode’s changing form. It is tyranny that frequently turns Gothic tales... Read More about Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic.

Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine (2018)
Thesis
Hamand, M. E. Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4266367

The thesis includes a novel, Virgin and Child, and an exegesis, which explores how novelists creatively engage with issues of religion and morality within the genre of the literary thriller. The novel interweaves the Catholic position on issues of ge... Read More about Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine.

The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to transformations (185-206). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_13

In this extract from the memoir of her father, Gerald: A Portrait (1934), Daphne du Maurier resurrects the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier and places him in Whitby in 1917. This port town of North Yorkshire had been a favourite holiday retreat of Ger... Read More about The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall.

Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (2016)
Book
Wynne, C. (2016). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047

'My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side,' warns Dracula. This statement is descriptive of the Gothic genre. Like the Count, the Gothic encompasses and has manifested itself in many forms. Bram Stoker and the Goth... Read More about Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations.

On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto (2016)
Book Chapter
Arnold, M. (2016). On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: formations to transformations (14-29). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047

This essay assesses the extent to which Old Norse tradition provided the basis for a subspecies of literary horror. It focuses on those formations and interpretations of Old Norse Literature as it came gradually to light from the sixteenth century on... Read More about On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto.

Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry (2016)
Book Chapter
Cockin, K. (2016). Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic (159-171). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_11

When Oscar Wilde designated Ellen Terry ‘Our Lady of the Lyceum’ (Robertson, 1931: 149), the Marian terminology positioned the Lyceum Theatre itself as a sacred space or seat of worship. It was Henry Irving’s temple, with Bram Stoker as his trusted b... Read More about Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry.

Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
Book
Wynne, C. (2012). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction. The University of Hull

Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, sele... Read More about Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction.