Female Sexuality in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel
This essay explores expressions of female sexuality and homoerotic desire within Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel.
‘Like Two Pigeons in One Nest’: Marriage, Sisterhood, and Homoerotic Desire in the works of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson
Through contrasting Rossetti and Dickinson’s portrayals of sisterly love, this paper establishes how both women used marriage and sisterhood as a representation of their own feelings towards women’s place within nineteenth-century society.
John Berryman’s Dream Songs and Unconventional Literary Horror
This essay explores the extent to which it is possible to situate John Berryman’s The Dream Songs in the horror genre.
An Exploration of the Female Presence in Different Musical Genres
This essay explores the challenges faced by female musicians, as well as how these difficulties have led female voices to become more thinly spread over various genres, rather than being concentrated within a particular style.
The Effect of Medical Discourse on Early and Late 19th-Century Gothic Novels
In this dissertation, I analyse the connection between nineteenth-century fears surrounding medical sciences and the success of the Gothic novels Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. By analysing these works in the context of nineteenth-century science, I describe how the authors utilised societal fears in order to produce realistic and horrifying scenarios that had a foundation in plausible scientific theories.