The Centre for Victorian Studies
Completed PhDs in Victorian Studies (From 2000 onwards)

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  • Grace Moore: Dickens’s Others: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Work of Charles Dickens.
  • Ann Swyderski: Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Barratt Browning: “The Outer – from the Inner/ Derives It’s Magnitude”.

 2001

  • Anne Anderson: The High Art Maiden: Edward Burne-Jones and The Girls on The Golden Stairs.  Women and British Aestheticism c. 1860-1900.

2003

  • Clare Bainbridge: Noble Bastards: The Silver Fork Novel, Politics and History.
  • Elizabeth Galway: From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Constructing Canadian National Identity through Children’s Literature, 1867-1911.
  • Gail Levitt: Anti-Vivisection Writing 1875-1910 and its Cultural Context.
  • Hilary Margaret Markwick: Constructions of Masculinity in the Novels of Anthony Trollope.
  • Ann Oakins: The Moral Art of Charles Reade: Celibacy and the Construction of Gender.

2004

  • Martin Delveaux: Early Green Narratives and the Rise of Bioregionalism.  An Ecocritical Perspective on British Fiction, 1880-1920.
  • Patricia Milton: ‘A Scythia Within England’: The Literary Representations of Dartmoor, from Early Times to 1914.
  • Suzanne Nunn: Lines of Engagement: Changing Representations of the Doctor Through the Middle-Class Appropriation of Graphic Satire 1800-1858.
  • Maria Fernanda Penaloza: Ethnographic Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Othering: Nineteenth-Century British Representations of Argentine Patagonia.
  • Tim Worth: Imperial Attitudes: G.A. Henty: Empire, Nationhood and Character.

2005

  • Oliver Jenkin: Factional Pasts: The Shifting Relations Between Nineteenth-Century Historiography and Historical Fiction, 1814-1870.
  • John Michael Smith-Rawnsley: Baggy Monsters in Cages: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the Limitations of Literary Realism.
  • Florina Tufescu: Oscar Wilde's Decadent Plagiarism: The Spectacular Restoration of Classical Theory and Practice.

2006

  • Christopher Barker: The Stone and the Shell: The Image of the Arab and the Romantic Sublime in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

2007

  • Laura Daniels: Victorian Psychology in Sensation and New Woman Fiction.
  • Sunie Fletcher: Beauty, Flowers and Flesh: Female-Aesthete Novelists of the Fin de Diecle and Beyond.
  • Christopher Pittard: Purity and Genre: Late Victorian Detective Fiction.

2008

  • Tamsin Kilner O'Byrne: Empire of the Imagination: Victorian Popular Fiction and the Occult.
  • Halle Marshall: Bilogy and Possibility: The Scientific Writings of Grant Allen, 1858-1899.
  • Keith Hooper (Supervisor: Ana Vadillo): Ecclesiastical Documentarist and Angelic Gospel Writer: Religious Representations in the Early Works of Dickens.

 

2009

  • Darren Bevin: The Struggle for Ascendancy: John Ruskin, Albert Smith and the Alpine Aesthetic.

  • Kate Hext : Walter Pater's Philosophical Aesthetic of Self-Perfection.

  • Maria Ioannou: The Function of Frivolous Beauty in Victorian Literature.

  • Donna Maynard: Reading Space in Nineteenth Century Fiction.

   2011
  • Dermot Coleman: Being Good with Money: Economic Bearings in George Eliot's Ethical and Social Thought.  
  • Andrew Griffiths: 'The Wildest Oriental Romance': The British Empire and the Popular Print Media, 1884 -1902.
  • Rosalind Leveridge: 'Limelights and Shadows': Popular and Visual Culture in South West England, 1880-1914. 

 

 


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