From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a ‘detective craze’ in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood…
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This thesis addresses the question of what happened to monastic estates in Wales following the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1540, when the majority of former monastic land in Wales was absorbed into the estates of secular Welsh elites, or uchelwyr. The lens th…
Within this written thesis and in conjunction with a physical practice I will explore the complex nature of identity as a universal concept throughout humanity. Examining how it develops and changes through time as a fluid thing. From my perspective, as a gender and sexually que…
This thesis investigates the creation, early history and development of the permanent collection of the Laing Art Gallery - the first public art museum in Newcastle upon Tyne - between its opening in 1904 and the death of its first and perhaps most emblematic curator, C. Bernard…
Using research from the history of the Victorian novel and recent media, I demonstrate the value in re-examining the critical importance of the antihero. Using a methodology of combining neo-Marxian analysis, adaptation studies, and a re-thinking of what constitutes novels and t…
Analyzing Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and linking trends of the Byronic hero that have merged into a variety of genres reveal that the hero is a mode of subversive gender expression, which has evolved within the Gothic through feminine desire. Delving into Bram Stoker’s Dra…
This dissertation project examines the symbol of an art object which represents a corpse or dead person’s identity, what I call the abject d’art, as it appears in fin de siècle (late nineteenth century) supernatural fiction by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and is used in order to id…
The purpose of the following thesis is to continue the conversation regarding Queen Victoria’s relationship with Prince Albert and how this subsequently affected her. It is widely known among Victorian scholars that Prince Albert took a domineering role in government—but how ext…
This thesis focuses on the representation of children and education through both the melodramatic themes of the texts and the melodramatic vision of the illustrations.
This thesis develops our knowledge of the guitar in Victorian England by focusing on amateur players. It demonstrates that the instrument did not fall into the oblivion claimed in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1880. Two areas of investigation are given prov…
Recent research suggests there is a resurgence in the practice of sewing clothes at home. These studies typically focus on women who sew ready-to-wear clothing for themselves and draw their conclusions from niche groups of sewers. To better understand the landscape of garment se…