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Epistolary Larkin : life, letters and the literary biography (2022)
Thesis
Devine, R. Epistolary Larkin : life, letters and the literary biography. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224248

‘Epistolary Larkin’ is the first comprehensive study to focus primarily on Philip Larkin’s letters as literary constructs. The publication of Anthony Thwaite’s Philip Larkin: Selected Letters 1940-1985 (1992) caused widespread division across the cri... Read More about Epistolary Larkin : life, letters and the literary biography.

The female-authored lyric in the Anthropocene: a creative-critical investigation into nonhuman concerns in contemporary anglophone poetry by women (2020)
Thesis
Allen, R. (2020). The female-authored lyric in the Anthropocene: a creative-critical investigation into nonhuman concerns in contemporary anglophone poetry by women. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4922253

This study consists of a portfolio of creative work in the form of a sequence of verse and prose poems, entitled Kingdomland, preceded by a critical thesis: ‘The Female-Authored Lyric in the Anthropocene: a creative-critical investigation into nonhum... Read More about The female-authored lyric in the Anthropocene: a creative-critical investigation into nonhuman concerns in contemporary anglophone poetry by women.

Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2018). Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity. In P. Mallett (Ed.), The Victorian novel and masculinity (116-150). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491541_6

In July 1907, Thomas Hardy attended a dinner given by the Medico-Psychology Society (later to become the Royal College of Psychiatrists) as the guest of Peter William Macdonald, MD, medical superintendent of Dorset County Asylum and President of the... Read More about Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity.

Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2018). Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’. In D. Kennedy, & R. Meek (Eds.), Ekphrastic Encounters (165-180). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526125804.00016

This chapter applies the idea of a non-hierarchical, creative exchange of meaning to Hamo Thornycroft’s 1884 sculpture of The Mower, and its accompanying epigraph from Matthew Arnold’s 1866 elegy for the poet Arthur Hugh Clough: ‘Thyrsis’. The chapte... Read More about Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’.

The mower, the sower, and the mayor: Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, encounters and affinities (2018)
Journal Article
Thomas, J. (2018). The mower, the sower, and the mayor: Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, encounters and affinities. Word and Image, 34(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2017.1327306

This essay explores the intellectual and creative friendship between Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, who met in 1883 when they were engaged upon works that were to define their respective careers. Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge and Thornycroft’... Read More about The mower, the sower, and the mayor: Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, encounters and affinities.

'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction (2015)
Thesis
Turner, K. J. 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. 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.

Remedial discourses : men, madness and mental management in fin-de-siècle literature (2015)
Thesis
Cope, E. E. Remedial discourses : men, madness and mental management in fin-de-siècle literature. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217334

The period between 1880 and 1913, commonly known as the fin de siècle, was a time of great social, political and industrial change, an era in which the Victorian man saw his position within his society, his workplace and his family home undergo a rad... Read More about Remedial discourses : men, madness and mental management in fin-de-siècle literature.

Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature (2012)
Thesis
Berry, S. J. Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213489

The general consensus regarding the role of Christianity at the fin de siècle is that while it did not cease to exist, technological and scientific advances had eroded the faith of many educated Victorians. Here, the term “seeking” suggests a spiritu... Read More about Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature.

Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature (2010)
Journal Article
Thomas, J. (2010). Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature. Yearbook of English Studies, 40(1/2), 246-272

The sculptural trope enjoyed a revival in later Victorian literature, especially the classical sculptural nude. These ancient figures retain their function as mediators between the gods and their human votaries for their Victorian admirers, but they... Read More about Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature.

Changes in the literary canon (2008)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2008). Changes in the literary canon. In The Victorian literature handbook (163 - 176). Continuum Press

Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000 (2003)
Thesis
Ellam, J. L. Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212289

"What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life li... Read More about Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000.

Social conditioning versus biological determinism : a study of the women characters in the 'minor' novels of Thomas Hardy (1985)
Thesis
Thomas, J. 1. Social conditioning versus biological determinism : a study of the women characters in the 'minor' novels of Thomas Hardy. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215533

The popular and critical consensus with regard to the novels of Thomas Hardy is that they exemplify a fatalistic or pessimistic philosophy consequent upon their author's early contact with evolutionary thought. One of the functions of this thesis is... Read More about Social conditioning versus biological determinism : a study of the women characters in the 'minor' novels of Thomas Hardy.