Recent theses
The New Woman Novel and the Transformation of the Female: Marriage, Motherhood
Imagining Corrupt Consumption: the Genesis and Evolution of the Pox in Sixteenth-Century English Literature, 1494-1606
Tracing the Shadow of No Mean City: Class and Gender in Modern Scottish Urban Fiction
Aspects of Modern Scottish Literature and Ecological Thought
Not Without My Body: Feminist Science Fiction and Embodied Futures
Revolutions in Marriage in the Fiction of Henry James
Experiment and representation: the domestic surreal in contemporary British and American poetry
White screen, black masks: Othello and the performativity of race on stage and screen
Shadows and chivalry: pain, suffering, evil and goodness in the works of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis
The politics of place in the work of Hugh MacDiarmid
Duty, integrity, and the auditory imagination: the poethics of T.S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney
Bildung and initiation: interpreting German and American narrative traditions
Shakespeare, gender and the rhetoric of excuse
Law, gender and culture: representations of the female legal subject in selected Jacobean texts
Representations of adultery and regeneration in selected novels of Ford, Lawrence, Waugh and Greene
Virginia Woolf's alterbiographical writing : creativity and the other
James Joyce, Catholicism and heresy: with specific reference to Giordano Bruno
The selected short stories of Elizabeth Gaskell: Gothic tradition, forgiveness and redemption, and female friendships in Mrs Gaskell's short fiction
A deeper "well of English undefyled" : the role and influence of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry: with particular reference to Hopkins, Pound and Auden
The field-sized republic: landscape, lyricism and versions of Scottish identity in Douglas Dunn's poetry, from `Terry Street' to `The Year's Afternoon'
The dream state: making, reading and marketing contemporary Scottish poetry
Liminality as identity in four novels by Ben Okri and Tahar ben Jelloun
Thomas Heywood's `Gunaikeion' (1624) and the encyclopedic culture of early seventeenth-century England: commentary and electronic database
Dickens and the unreal city: the metropolitan symbolism of the mystery story
Imagining independence: some modern Scottish novels
Robert Garioch and aspects of the Scottish poetic tradition
Unlocking the door of learning: the development of the Scottish university novel in the nineteenth century
A study of Scotland's relationship to the British Empire: as depicted in the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John Buchan
English Renaissance paradox: intellectual contexts and traditions with particular reference to John Donne's `Paradoxes' and `Biathanatos'
Subjection and domination in the work of Ian McEwan
Popular fiction in France and England, 1860-1875 : convention, irony and ambivalence in the novels of Paul Féval and Wilkie Collins
Going over old ground: the sonnet sequence in the late twentieth century
Postcoloniality, modernity and Scottish cultural identity: models from literature and theory
Misanthropy in the work of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope
Peasant mandarins: four poets negotiating traditions after the Empire