This thesis explores the significance of 'Presbyterian Realism' in the context of Scottish painting in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, with particular reference to the early development of Arthur Melville. Melville travelled in Egypt and Persia in 1881-'82, reflecting the contemporary taste for Eastern subjects at the Salon and Royal Academy exhibitions. However Melville's reactions to Islam contrasted directly with his peers, whose choice and treatment of contentious themes reveal the mentality of the imperialist male bourgeoisie. Melville's redefinition of Orientalism can be attributed to the particular social, religious, moral and ethical codes he had absorbed during his formative years, a conditioning which ensured that h...
This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Mo...
This thesis has two aims. The first is to demonstrate that commentaries on the work produced by Sime...
This dissertation examines the role of the Manx artist and designer Archibald Knox(1864-1933) in sha...
David Hockney is generally recognised as the most talented British artist of his generation. In my t...
This thesis suggests that a range of major and some minor Scottish nineteenth-century artists’ appro...
Scholarship on Herman Melville has a tendency to treat the sea as a destination in itself, but in on...
It has been the object of the writer, in preparing this thesis, to emphasize the influence of Britis...
In this study I examine the ways in which the idea of a national literature affected the development...
My task in this thesis is to assess the theological implications of Herman Melville’s aesthetic unde...
This thesis researches Stevenson's Protestant inheritance and the ways in which the Calvinist doctri...
This thesis discusses the stylistic development of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956) as seen in ...
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Traditionally, Arthur Johnston has been judged proxime accessit to George Buchanan in the world of S...
The thesis reconsiders key aspects of the work of the British artist Edward Robert Hughes RWS (1851-...
The goal of this thesis is to explore and identify Herman Melville’s position on a government that p...
This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Mo...
This thesis has two aims. The first is to demonstrate that commentaries on the work produced by Sime...
This dissertation examines the role of the Manx artist and designer Archibald Knox(1864-1933) in sha...
David Hockney is generally recognised as the most talented British artist of his generation. In my t...
This thesis suggests that a range of major and some minor Scottish nineteenth-century artists’ appro...
Scholarship on Herman Melville has a tendency to treat the sea as a destination in itself, but in on...
It has been the object of the writer, in preparing this thesis, to emphasize the influence of Britis...
In this study I examine the ways in which the idea of a national literature affected the development...
My task in this thesis is to assess the theological implications of Herman Melville’s aesthetic unde...
This thesis researches Stevenson's Protestant inheritance and the ways in which the Calvinist doctri...
This thesis discusses the stylistic development of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956) as seen in ...
Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderT...
Traditionally, Arthur Johnston has been judged proxime accessit to George Buchanan in the world of S...
The thesis reconsiders key aspects of the work of the British artist Edward Robert Hughes RWS (1851-...
The goal of this thesis is to explore and identify Herman Melville’s position on a government that p...
This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Mo...
This thesis has two aims. The first is to demonstrate that commentaries on the work produced by Sime...
This dissertation examines the role of the Manx artist and designer Archibald Knox(1864-1933) in sha...