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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.

The immigrant experience: multiculturalism, religious identity, Thatcherism and the clash of generations in selected works by Hanif Kureishi. (2023)
Thesis
Islam, S. The immigrant experience: multiculturalism, religious identity, Thatcherism and the clash of generations in selected works by Hanif Kureishi. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4448505

This thesis, focusing on a wide range of texts by Hanif Kureishi, discusses postcolonial aspects of multiculturalism, racism, evolving religious identity, and the ways in which Thatcherism led to class rifts as well as entrepreneurial opportunities.... Read More about The immigrant experience: multiculturalism, religious identity, Thatcherism and the clash of generations in selected works by Hanif Kureishi..

Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television (2020)
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Khorikian, A. L. (2020). Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4922443

Familial teams were a pronounced and novel trend in 00s British crime series, with nearly 18% employing a structure wherein multi-protagonist teams display nuclear family-like bonding and dynamics, informing patterns within an individual episode, and... Read More about Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television.

Burdekin's utopian visions : a study of four interwar texts (2015)
Thesis
Desforges, K. E. (2015). Burdekin's utopian visions : a study of four interwar texts. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218737

This thesis is an exploration of four of Katharine Burdekin’s utopian texts from the interwar period. Each text offers a unique perspective on the genre. The earliest text considered is The Rebel Passion (1929), Burdekin’s first utopian text and the... Read More about Burdekin's utopian visions : a study of four interwar texts.