School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations
Published 2009Individuals may write themselves, their communities and their friendships into being on social network sites (Sundén 2003) (boyd 2008). That is, they write themselves into being by providing information about themselves ...Open AccessThesis -
The 'S' Word: The Spectre of Syphilis within Middle-Class Marriage in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Published 2009-01-01The years between 1870 and 1914 witnessed profound shifts in the medical understanding of, social responses to, and cultural representations of syphilis and its sufferers. Prostitutes had traditionally been recognised as ...Open AccessThesis -
Defining the 'Strano': Madness in Renaissance Italy
Published 2009-01-01This thesis explores the different ways madness was defined and treated in Italian texts from the early fifteenth century through to the late sixteenth century. Although this thesis investigates how and why people were ...Open AccessThesis -
Phrenology and the Insanity Defence: Medical Jurisprudence in the McNaughtan Trial
Published 2008-01-01This thesis argues that phrenology shaped the defence argument in the McNaughtan trial. The role of this now-discredited science exemplifies the negotiation of scientific, legal and lay knowledge in the early nineteenth ...Open AccessThesis -
Internationalist Vision for a Postwar World: H. V. Evatt, Politics and the Law
Published 2008-01-01Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs in the postwar period (1941 – 1949), has been labelled by his contemporaries, biographers and historians as an internationalist. He is most often associated with playing a ...Open AccessThesis