Dissertations / Theses: 'Cambridge (England) in literature'

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James, Samuel Charles. "The 'Cambridge School' in the history of political thought, 1948-1979." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610472.

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Unwin, D. M. "The morphology, systematics and evolutionary history of pterosaurs from the Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of England." Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505670.

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Shepard, Alexandra Jane. "Meanings of manhood in Early Modern England : with special reference to Cambridge, c. 1560-1640." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272956.

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Bayley, Melanie. "Mathematics and literature in Victorian England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527279.

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Freidberg, Elizabeth Ann Perryman. "Certain small festivities : the texts and contexts of Thomas Randolph's poems and Cambridge entertainments." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321343.

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Jan, Sara. "Ibsen in England 1889-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259559.

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Blasini, Bettina Sophie. "The role of communicators in innovation clusters : a qualitative study of the innovation clusters Munich and Cambridge." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708797.

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Dandridge, Ross. "Anti-quack literature in early Stuart England." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/3112.

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During the thirty years preceding the Civil War, learned physicians such as John Cotta, James Hart, James Primerose and Edward Poeton produced a stream of works attacking those who practised medicine without what they regarded as the proper training and qualifications. Recent scholarship has tended to view these as exercises in economic protectionism within the context of the ‘medical marketplace’. However, increasing attention has latterly been drawn to the Calvinist religious preferences of these authors, and how these are reflected in their arguments, the suggestion being that these can be read as oblique critiques of contemporary church reform. My argument is that professional and religious motivations were in fact ultimately inseparable within these works. Their authors saw order and orthodoxy in all fields - medical, social, political and ecclesiastical - as thoroughly intertwined, and identified all threats to these as elements within a common tide of disorder. This is clearest in their obsession with witchcraft, that epitome of rebellion, and with priest-physicians; practitioners who tended to combine medical heterodoxy, anti-Calvinist sympathies and a taste for the occult, and whose practices were innately offensive to puritan social thought while carrying heavy Catholic overtones. These works therefore reflected an intensely conservative worldview, but my research suggests that they should not necessarily be taken as wholly characteristic of early Stuart puritan attitudes. All of these authors can be associated with the moderate wing of English Calvinism, and Cotta and Hart developed their arguments within the context of the Jacobean diocese of Peterborough, where an entrenched godly elite was confronted by an unusually rigourous conformist church court regime. They sought to promote a particular vision of puritan orthodoxy against conformist heterodoxy; in light of the events of the interregnum, it seems likely that this concealed more diverse attitudes towards medical reform amongst the godly.

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Brooke, Angela. "Imagining England in Russian literature, 1855-1917." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2008. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/844622/.

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During the era of Russia's modernisation and industrialisation which spans from the death of Nicholas I to the Revolution of 1917, Russian thinkers saw Britain as a rival and a society to emulate. The concern with Britain found its way to the pages of Russia's literary prose fiction in the form of English characters and images of England's society. The dissertation gives an analytical study of the English in Russian literature, examining how they become the textual other in the quest to identify Russia's national self between 1855 and 1917. The dissertation argues that the promulgation of stereotypes of Englishness in Russia's prose literature relies upon images that had been established by the travel narrative in the initial stages of Russia's quest to define its national identity. Early attempts to define Russia's selfhood through travellers' perceptions of England between 1790 and the 1840s fostered an essentialised image of Englishness which the later writers cemented. The theoretical investigation of identity creates a foundation upon which our assessment has been formed. It involves the exploration of Russian national identity as it is implied through the images of England and the English: Evoking the critical framework of Said and the theories of Orientalism and Occidentalism, this dissertation studies the Russian literary productions of England and the English, of religion in England, of 'Englishness' as a form of social respectability, and also of the British Empire and the exportation of English values abroad.

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Burbridge, Brent E. "Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 278: Embodying Community and Authority in Late Medieval Norwich." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35095.

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 278 is an early-fourteenth-century trilingual manuscript of the Psalms from Norwich Cathedral Priory, an urban cathedral church staffed by Benedictine monks. This manuscript is notable because it contains one of six Middle English Metrical Psalters, the earliest Middle English translation of the Psalms, as well as a full Anglo-Norman Oxford Psalter, the most popular French translation of the Psalms in late medieval England. While the Middle English Metrical Psalter is a remarkable and understudied text in and of itself, the Metrical Psalter of CCC 278 is even more interesting because of its monastic provenance and innovative layout. This thesis explores the questions of why a monastic institution would produce a manuscript of two complete, prominently displayed, vernacular Psalters with only highly abbreviated Latin textual references; what sociolinguistic and political forces drove the production of this innovative manuscript; and how the Middle English Metrical Psalter in particular was read, and by whom. Because there are no annotations, colophon, prologue or external documentation to provide clues to either the intended or actual use of the manuscript by the Priory monks, this thesis undertakes a detailed historicization and contextualization of the book in its urban, religious, linguistic and social settings. In addition, the lenses of community, mediation, and authority are applied, leading to the conclusion that CCC 278 and its Middle English Metrical Psalter were likely used by the monks to reach out to Norwich’s élite laity in order to form a mixed reading community around the book—a reading community controlled by the Priory.

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Church, Alan P. "Scribal rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9320.

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Bertram, Benjamin Glenn. "Skepticism and social struggle in early modern England /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9804020.

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Marshall, David W. "Monstrous England nation and reform, 1375--1385 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274253.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2937. Advisers: Karma Lochrie; Patricia C. Ingham. Title from dissertation home page (viewed April 8, 2008).

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Langum, Virginia Eileen. "Discretion in late medieval England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609515.

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Weiss, Katherine. "Book Review of John Bolin, Beckett and the Modern Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2013)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2291.

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Allen, Lea Knudsen. "Cosmopolite subjectivities and the Mediterranean in early modern England." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318286.

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Bobo, Kirsti Ann. "Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in children's literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd666.pdf.

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Bobo, Kirsti A. "Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children's Literature." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/228.

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This thesis surveys the children's literary accounts of Anglo-Saxon history and literature that have been written since the mid-nineteenth century. Authors of different ages emphasize different aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture as societal need for and interpretation of the past change. In studying these changes, I show not only why children's authors would choose to depict the Saxons in their writing, but why medievalists would want to study the resulting literature. My second chapter looks at children's historical fiction and nonfiction, charting the trends which appear in the literature written between 1850 and the present day. I survey the changes made in authors' representations of Anglo-Saxon England as children's publication trends have changed. I show how these changes are closely related to the changes made in popular conceptions of the past. My third chapter discusses the way in which children's retellings of Beowulf have placed the poem into a less culturally-dependent, more universal setting as they have separated the tale from its linguistic and cultural heritage. Children's authors have gradually removed the poem's poetic and linguistic devices and other cultural elements from their retellings, instead favoring a more courtly medieval setting, or even a generic universal one. Children's literature is an important indicator of the societal values contemporary with its publication. Authors and publishers often write the literature to reflect their own ideologies and agendas more openly in children's literature than in other literature. As I show in this thesis, the attitudes toward Anglo-Saxon England which pervade children's literature of any age make it a particularly useful tool to those scholars interested in the study of popular reception of the Middle Ages.

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McRae, Andrew Donald. "Textual representations of agrarian England, 1547-1625." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239153.

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Winchell, James. "Murdered sleep : crime and aesthetics in France and England, 1850-1910 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6615.

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Silver, Sean R. "The curatorial imagination in England, 1660-1752." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1720866751&sid=20&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Montaño, Jesus A. "Writing a nation : figuring community in late medieval England/." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148819010986812.

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Slater, Graeme Paul. "Authorship and authority in Hume's History of England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314546.

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Birchwood, Matthew. "Dramatic representations of Islam in England 1640-1685." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271527.

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O'Donnell, Thomas Joseph. "Monastic literary culture and communities in England, 1066-1250." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1905660951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Rogers, Janine. "Gender and the literature culture of late medieval England." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35053.

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This dissertation explores the impact of gender ideologies held by medieval readerships on the production of books and circulation of texts in late medieval England. The first chapter explores how the professional book trade of late medieval London circulated booklets of Chauceriana which constructed masculinity and femininity in strict adherence to the courtly love literary tradition. In the second chapter, I demonstrate that such a standardized representation of courtly gender could be adapted by a readership removed from the professional book trade, in this case the rural gentry producers of the Findern manuscript, who present a revised vision of femininity and courtliness in their anthology. This revised femininity includes several texts which privilege the female speaking voice. The third chapter goes on to investigate the use of the female voice in one particular genre, the love lyric, and asks if the female lyric speaker can be associated with manuscripts in which women participated as producers or readers. Finally, the fourth chapter turns to masculinity, examining how the commonplace book of an early 16th century grocer, Richard Hill, contains selections from didactic and recreational literature which reinforce the ideals of masculine conduct in the merchant community of late medieval London. The dissertation concludes that manuscript contexts must be taken into account when reading gender in medieval English literature.

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Light, Alison. "Forever England : femininity, literature, and conservatism between the wars /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1991. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/91000587-d.html.

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Stainsby, Jonathan David. "Literature and the Land in Mid-Seventeenth-Centuary England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508674.

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Dutton, Anne Marie. "Women's use of religious literature in late medieval England." Thesis, Online version, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.296557.

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Breuer, Heidi Jo. "Crafting the witch: Gendering magic in medieval and early modern England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280400.

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This project documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and power, but in the later texts, magic becomes a primarily feminine activity, one that marks its user as wicked and heretical. The prophet becomes the wicked witch. This dissertation explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transformation. Chapter Two surveys representations of magic in the texts of four authors within the Arthurian canon: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Layamon. These writers gender magic similarly (representing prophecy and certain forms of transformative magic as masculine and healing as feminine) and use gendered figures to mitigate the threat of masculine power posed by the feudal patriarchy present in England and France in the twelfth century. Chapter Three explores representations of two magical characters who appear in a group of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romances associated with Gawain: the churlish knight and the loathly lady. The authors of these romances privilege gender conventions radically different from those in earlier models and conjure a figure neglected by the earlier writers, the wicked witch. In particular, representations of the witch as a wicked step-mother reflect the anxiety created by expanding space for women (especially mothers) in previously exclusively male arenas of English society. In Chapter Four, I follow the romance tradition into early modern England, studying the work of Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare. For these authors, the wicked witch (alternately represented as temptress or crone) is connected specifically to maternity; the severe anxiety about maternity in these texts is representative of widespread concern about mothers and motherhood in sixteenth-century England. Chapter Five traces the legislative policy governing prosecution of witches in England and offers suggestions about the relationship between legal climates and literary representations of magic. Though prosecution of witchcraft is now extremely rare in the U.S., filmmakers still rely on medieval and Renaissance models to inform their representations of witches. Once she arrived, the witch never left.

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Stafford, Brooke Alyson. "Outside England : mobility and early modern Englishness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9326.

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Unruh, Dwane F. "A comparison between the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic and the Middle English version contained in Caius College, Cambridge, MS. 107." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4569.

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Kaufman, James A. (James Arnold). "Siting amenities and the public review process : the Kennedy Library in Cambridge and New England Aquarium in the Charlestown Navy Yard." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14045.

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Sletcher, Michael Alan. "The rise of heterodoxy and civic education in seventeenth-century New England, with special reference to Cambridge University and Harvard College." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620490.

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MIRANDA, CAMILA DO VALLE FERNANDES DE. "A SEMI COLONIAL LITERATURE? ABOUT THE PORTUGAL OF ENGLAND AND THE ENGLAND OF EÇA DE QUEROZ." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5118@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Procuro perceber se uma parte significativa do imaginário descrito na literatura canônica portuguesa está marcada pela relação de dependência estabelecida ao longo de séculos com a Inglaterra. Tomando o procedimento da descrição como algo que nunca é ideologicamente neutro e tematizando também o lugar a partir de onde escrevo, indago se as cicatrizes comumente encontradas em textos de ex- colônias também aparecem na produção literária portuguesa. Apesar de Portugal já ter sido apontado por estudiosos de várias áreas como um país que fora historicamente submetido pela Inglaterra a uma espécie de colonialismo, esta perspectiva, em geral, não é levada em consideração nos estudos literários. Considerando a situação de semicolônia como uma singularidade cultural, proponho uma estratégia de leitura para textos nela produzidos utilizando a experiência dos estudos culturais e conceitos desse espaço e tempo - também teóricos - chamados de pós-coloniais. Talvez, então, outra singularidade se desdobre: a relação de contigüidade entre as literaturas da ex-metrópole e das ex-colônias. O recorte temporal foi feito em torno da data do Ultimatum, 1890, por isso o estudo de caso recai sobre Eça de Queiroz.
I try to notice if the dependence relation established along the centuries with England marks a meaning part of the imaginary described in the Portuguese canonical literature. Supposing that the description procedure is something that is never ideologically neutral, and also taking into account the place where I write from - Brazil - , I do observe if the scars that are usually found in ex- colonies also appear in the production of Portuguese literature. Although Portugal has already been indicated by studious from many areas as a country that was historically submitted to England as a sort of colonialism, this perspective, in general, is not considered among literature studies. Considering the situation of semi colony as a cultural singularity, I suggest a reading strategy for texts pertaining to this semi colony literature making use of the experience of cultural studies and concepts from this time and space - either theoretical - called post- colonials. Maybe, then, another singularity is unfolded: the contiguity relation between the literatures of the ex- metropolis and the excolonies ones. The temporal cutting was made surround the date of the Ultimatum, 1890, this is why the study remits me to Eça de Queiroz.

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Sweet, Rosemary Helen. "The writing of urban histories in eighteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359724.

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Karn, Nicholas. "Monastic letter-collections of the twelfth century in England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270119.

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Fisher, Joshua Benjamin. "Misreading and the parameters of exemplarity in early modern England /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9352.

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Light, Susan. "Strange constructions : reading romances in Renaissance England /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9809140.

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Logan, Sandra Ann. "Willing subjects : historical events and rhetorical occasions in early modern England /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9981962.

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Seo, Dong Ha. "Military culture of Shakespeare's England." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2976/.

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This thesis examines the development of military culture in, and its effects on, early modern English society. Militarism during the late Elizabethan and early Stuart periods was not reinforced by military institutions directly interfering with the private lives of individuals, or by controlling the thoughts and actions of the whole nation. It was, however, strongly influenced by the culture of a military elite, represented by leading noblemen such as Leicester, Sidney, Essex, and Prince Henry, who paid considerable attention to the theatrical aspects of formal and ceremonial occasions and how their military role was portrayed in art and literature. Unlike the usual traditional portrayal of these prominent figures as incompetent military leaders who rushed blindly forwards in pursuit of military glory, we will see that through their aristocratic patronage of various art forms they promoted their image as competent Protestant warriors, and helped the public to be receptive to a variety of military ideas. The principal motivation of this study is to consider a multiplicity of perspectives on how a military culture was constructed, through a variety of genres, and how particular views on military matters were integrated into popular culture. Literary critics and historians have previously examined certain aspects of militarism in this period but this study aims to take a holistic view of how the military culture developed and affected the public sphere.

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Kewes, Paulina. "Authorship and appropriation : conceptions of playwriting in England, 1660-1710." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361931.

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Ingelbien, Raphael. "Misreading England : poetry and nationhood since the Second World War." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323171.

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Lazarus, Micha David Swade. "Aristotle's Poetics in Renaissance England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fea8e0e3-df54-4b57-b45d-0b46acd06530.

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This thesis brings to light evidence for the circulation and first-hand reception of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century England. Though the Poetics upended literary thinking on the Continent in the period, it has long been considered either unavailable in England, linguistically inaccessible to the Greekless English, or thoroughly mediated for English readers by Italian criticism. This thesis revisits the evidentiary basis for each of these claims in turn. A survey of surviving English booklists and library catalogues, set against the work's comprehensive sixteenth-century print-history, demonstrates that the Poetics was owned by and readily accessible to interested readers; two appendices list verifiable and probable owners of the Poetics respectively. Detailed philological analysis of passages from Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesie proves that he translated directly from the Greek; his and his contemporaries' reading methods indicate the text circulated bilingually as standard. Nor was Sidney’s polyglot access unusual in literary circles: re-examination of the history of Greek education in sixteenth-century England indicates that Greek literacy was higher and more widespread than traditional histories of scholarship have allowed. On the question of mediation, a critical historiography makes clear that the inherited assumption of English reliance on Italian intermediaries for classical criticism has drifted far from the primary evidence. Under these reconstituted historical conditions, some of the outstanding episodes in the sixteenth-century English reception of the Poetics from John Cheke and Roger Ascham in the 1540s to Sidney and John Harington in the 1580s and 1590s are reconsidered as articulate evidence of reading, thinking about, and responding to Aristotle's defining contribution to Renaissance literary thought.

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Brownlee, Victoria Margaret Roberta. "Reforming figures : biblical interpretation and literature in early modern England." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580119.

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This thesis considers how Protestants read the Bible, understood the Old and New Testaments, and how this impacted upon early modern literary production. In particular, it explores the way in which individual biblical figures and particular biblical texts became enmeshed with specific political and cultural concerns and enveloped into the period's writings. As part of this, it probes the uneasy relationship between the reformed commitment to a literalist hermeneutic and the reality of their interpretative methodologies. Considering the use of exegetical practices, including typology, the thesis contends that reformed 'literalism' is more capacious, and indeed figural, than it claims to be. Structured around individual biblical books and figures, the thesis presses these considerations across a variety of early modern writers and genres. Chapters one and two look at the biblical figures of Solomon and Job, exploring how they are read in relation to ideas of kingship and suffering and symbolically represented in image, print and on stage. The third chapter considers how the reformers' alternative 'literal' reading of the Song of Songs both shapes and destabilises the contemporary poetry that engages with this biblical text. The final two chapters shift discussion to the New Testament. The penultimate chapter explores how a typological understanding ofMary facilitates re-readings of motherhood in writing by women. Discussion concludes with a consideration of the end-point of typological history, apocalypse, tracing how the idea of revelation is contested on the early modern stage. Demonstrating how Protestant interpretative practices both contribute to, and problematise, literary constructions of a range of contemporary debates, this thesis offers a reassessment of the interaction between early modern literature and the Bible.

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Howe, Sarah Louise. "Literature and the visual imagination in Renaissance England, 1580-1620." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609769.

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Warren, Christopher Norton. "Literature and the Law of Nations in England, 1585-1673." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487149.

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This thesis argues that Renaissance English literature and the rise of international law over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are ineluctably bound together. Challenging traditions in both literature and law that separate these two stories, the thesis examines works by major writers in both the literary'and legal t~aditions. With analysis of works by Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, and John Milton, as well as by Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Alberico Gentili and William P~nn, it explores the ground of civic humanism that was shared by literary writers, on one hand, and legal and political theorists, on the other-a shared ground that ultimately frustrates modern attempts to divide one from the other. Taking issue with anti-humanist literary paradigms like New Historicism that have been skeptical about law in general and international law, in particular, the thesis shows that turning to what the period called.the law ofnations can sharpen analyses of topics already fundamental to literacy scholarship, such as colonialism and nationalism; the literary articulation of equity, power, rights, and political obligations; categories oflegal personhood; ideas ofbarbarity and civilization; cosmopolitanism and globalization; and representation and recognition. It sheds new light on familiar texts such as Sidney's 'Arcadia, Shakespeare and Wilkins' Pericles, and Milton's Samson Agonistes-w9rks that grow in richness when we recognize that what was at stake for many writers was the very concept of international order. At the same time, texts often seen as marginal or anomalous to literary history like Hugo Grotius' poems or Thomas Hobbes' translations demonstrate surprising richness and imaginative depth once placed within debates and genealogies of international law. Tracing the fortunes of a humanist and literary way of thinking and arguing about global affairs, the thesis proposes a new dialogue between literary history and the history of international law.

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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth Upchurch Robert K. "Rhetorical transformations of trees in medieval England from material culture to literary representation /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130.

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Summer, Saralyn Ellen. ""Like another Esther" literary representations of Queen Esther in early modern England /." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12012005-104141/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2005.
Title from title screen. Paul J. Voss, committee chair; Stephen B. Dobransk, Paul H. Schmidt, committee members. Electronic text (171 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-171).

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Kelly, Augustine. "The vernacular devotional literature of the English Catholic community, 1560-1640." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2651.

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The Catholic community of post-Settlement England relied upon devotional literature to sustain the faith of individuals who were generally deprived of the sacraments and contact with Catholic clergy. Increasingly, these books were used not only to promote Catholic spirituality, but to encourage greater fidelity and loyalty to the Catholic church. The genre is represented by texts which vary greatly and which accommodated a wide and disparate audience with different devotional requirements and even with varying degrees of attachment to the Catholic faith. The period was one of tremendous religious literary activity on the Continent and those who were involved in the production and distribution of Catholic literature drew heavily upon the spiritual books which were issuing in such great numbers from the commercial presses in France and the Netherlands. Translating the devotional works of the spiritual masters of the day proved to be a tremendously effective way of providing English readers with books of orthodox devotion, while at the same time drawing the isolated community into the wider world of Catholic renewal. Providing Catholic devotional texts to a persecuted audience under tremendous pressure to conform very often drew that audience into the fray of controversy and the quarrel of religious disputation. The line between devotion and controversy was thin and often crossed, and devotional books were frequently used as a method of promoting not only Catholic spirituality, but Catholic loyalty as well. Thus, these books, like other devotional artefacts, were considered dangerous to the religious - and political - stability of England. In the contemporary situation these devotional books were clearly regarded as effective tools for maintaining Catholicism in England, both by those who produced them and by those who sought to destroy them. The study of these books can help us to appreciate that important role and the place of devotional literature in the wider context of confessional conflict.

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