Edinburgh Research Archive

The 9/11 novel has already enjoyed extensive scholarly interest in the previous decades, and while the earlier research has offered some great insights, it has focused on a rather limited set of novels, revolved around ...

A regular feature of feminist speculative fiction, a world threatened by disease, climate change, war or political regime, often provokes its characters to feel nostalgic about a romanticised past or hopeful about an ...

Shōjo, a category of manga and anime (Japanese comics and animation) primarily marketed to young girls, has a notable history of depicting gender nonconformity — i.e. gender/sexual identities, expressions, or embodiments ...

The anthropological conception of the ‘monster’ is defined as the ‘other’: the unknown beings that surpass the boundary of human civilization. However, there is a sort of female monster on the Chinese screen that could ...

This thesis studies the presence of Virginia Woolf as the protagonist-subject in a sudden plethora of contemporary biofictions published within decades or so from the end of last century. The main hypothesis of this research ...

This thesis examines how the work of six American novelists engages with some of the key questions and arguments associated with contemporary debates and controversies surrounding the subject of appropriation in the context ...

Within Sunni political discourse is the question of one’s relationship with the state and more specifically, the ruler. The majority opinion upholds a quietism requiring obedience to the ruler, even if he is unjust. ...

What does it mean to think of Edith Wharton (1862-1937) as a decadent writer? In this thesis I suggest that, from the very beginning of her career, Wharton was a writer far more engaged with European literary decadence ...

As cities have become a significant sub-state feature in world politics since the latter part of the twentieth century, their diplomacy has played an important role in general diplomacy in promoting global governance and ...

This thesis anatomises the elements of space in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan, using four key spatial paradigms. It considers the effects of space – physical and conceptual – within Brennan’s body ...