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Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children (2021)
Thesis
Pojana Maneeyingsakul. (2021). Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223113

This thesis aims to reposition Roald Dahl and his children’s fiction in the evolution of the morality debate in other popular children’s writers. His works for children, which were written during the last three decades of his life, have been frequent... Read More about Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children.

'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction (2015)
Thesis
Turner, K. J. (2015). 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223293

In 1883 Eliza Lynn Linton described the men in women‟s fiction as „prigs, ruffians, or curled darlings‟, claiming that women writers cannot portray morally good men in fiction without making them seem unrealistic, unattractive, or both. This thesis a... Read More about 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction.

Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell (2015)
Thesis
Huang, P. S. (2015). Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218026

This thesis argues that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell employ textually important objects to explore women’s demeaning status in patriarchal societies and their construction of agency in such circumstances. In their novels, both Austen and Gaskell... Read More about Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess (2013)
Thesis
Pearce, J. (2013). Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216116

Life in Transit: Travel Narratives of the British Governess argues that on entering the profession of governessing, women embarked on a new, more mobile existence of travel and relocation on a local and global scale. At a time when gentlewomen rarely... Read More about Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess.

Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction (2012)
Thesis
Hatter, J. E. (2012). Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220635

In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Most of the critical output, however, relates to Braddon’s sensation novels Lady Audley’s Secret (1861) and Aurora Floyd (1862) (with... Read More about Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction.

`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century (2010)
Thesis
Snelling, S. L. (2010). `I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211481

This thesis is a text-based study of storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century, providing close readings of three texts from each of these periods. Books in Part One are drawn from the canon of class... Read More about `I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century.

Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (2005)
Thesis
Walton, S. K. (2005). Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215881

This thesis studies some of the writings of Charlotte Yonge as a route into the cultural concepts of masculinity in the mid-nineteenth century. In her many best-selling publications, both fiction and non-fiction, together with her editorial control o... Read More about Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities..

Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy (2005)
Thesis
Ingham, A. M. 1. (2005). Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220311

[From the introduction]: This thesis will explore the philosophical writing of four female reformers, identifying how their spiritual representations of the feminine attempted to authorise and empower women. It will critically investigate how Hannah... Read More about Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy.