Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Victorian literature"
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And he loved light rather than darkness: Giacomo Leopardi’s Poetics and Pessimism in the Work of Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and A. E. Housman
(2018-12-03)This thesis examines a selection of the work of three Victorian writers: Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and A. E. Housman, in light of their interest in the Romantic-era Italian poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. While often ... -
Gender Non-Conformity Beyond Narrative Prosthesis in Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady and Poor Miss Finch
(2021-08-11)Of the writers who influenced sensation fiction in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there are few who parallel Wilkie Collins in their commitment to quasi-realist presentations of disability in their narratives. In two of ...