Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Tilley, Elizabeth"
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Artefact Books: Towards a Multi-field Analytical Framework for Literary Research
Smith, Jennifer Dawn (2011-09-30)While the most fundamental object of literary studies is often the codex, in this age of digital and electronic sensory inundation, it would seem that the physical book has a limited lifespan. However, the technologies ... -
Dissecting the monster: mapping discourses of medicine, ethics, and monstrosity in the Victorian Penny Blood
Gasperini, Anna (2017-02-02)This research analyses a set of specimens of penny blood literature from the point of view of medical history, with the goal of providing an examination of the genre in relation to its historical context. In so doing, it ... -
The Dublin Group: Irish mezzotint printmakers and the Dublin print trade c. 1740 to 1750
Doherty, Neassa Therese (2015-05-25)This thesis explores the unique cultural and historical conditions leading to mezzotint portrait reproduction in Dublin during the 1740s. Arguably, the experiences and activity of the Dublin Group at Cork Hill facilitated ... -
The ethics of narrative form in Gaskell, Dickens, and Eliot
Pacious, Kathleen (2016-05-03)This thesis explores Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda through the lens of rhetorical narratology to offer conclusions for realism, metafiction, and ... -
Readership and Non-Canonical Victorian Popular Fiction 1860-1900: Materiality, Textuality, and Narrative
Rooney, Paul Raphael (2013-12-12)Scholars of print media are increasingly realising significant headway in the recovery of the history of reading. The study of Victorian fiction has also expanded beyond a core body of canonical texts to encompass a more ...