Influence of Shakespeare on the English Language
This paper focuses on the changes that occurred in literature as a result of William Shakespeare’s influence.
English Literature
These English literature dissertation examples are student-contributed and cover contemporary ways students analyse texts, authors, genres, and literary movements. Literature dissertations usually work best when they choose a clear set of primary texts and a focused critical lens, then build an argument that develops across close reading, context, and scholarly debate.
Common dissertation directions include gender, class, race, disability, and sexuality in literature; power and ideology; trauma and memory; colonial and postcolonial writing; and how texts represent bodies, labour, violence, or domestic life. Many projects focus on genre and form — gothic, romance, speculative fiction, crime, modernism — or on adaptations and intertextuality, including how narratives move across film, television, and digital culture. Students also explore authorship and canon formation, publishing and readership, and how historical contexts shape what texts say and what audiences can hear. Methods typically combine close textual analysis with critical frameworks such as feminist theory, Marxist criticism, psychoanalytic approaches, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, and narrative theory.
These examples can help you choose a tight corpus of texts and a critical approach that supports a clear thesis, with a structure that moves beyond summary into interpretation and argument.
Children’s Literature Annotated Bibliography
The Last Stop on Market Street is about a young boy named CJ and his grandmother riding a bus to get to their stop on Market Street. While on the bus ride, CJ’s grandmother teaches him to appreciate the world around him, and not worry about the things he is lacking.
Feminist Poetics and Female Subjectivity Marilyn Hacker’s Early Poetry, 1974-1980
CHAPTER ONE
Nomadic Consciousness in Hacker’s Early Poetry, 1974-1980
Every day our bodies separate,
exploded torn and dazed.
Not understanding what we celebrate
we grope through languages and hesi
Cartographies of the Posthuman Feminist Body in Winter Numbers
CHAPTER TWO
Cartographies of the Posthuman Feminist Body in Winter Numbers
. . . They wore the blunt tattoo,
a scar, if they survived, oceans away.
Should I tattoo my scar? What would it say?
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Loss of Land and Shift of Identity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
This chapter makes an attempt to examine, analyze and interpret the issue of loss of land correlates with loss/shift of human identity in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath through ecocritical pers
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
CHAPTER ONE: To be seen or not. Is that the question in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison?
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“I yam what I am!” – Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) attracted a lot of p
The Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels
Chapter I
From Context towards a Definition of the Gothic
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It can easily be argued and, it has indeed been mentioned by one critic or another in the literature dedicated to the genre, that nobody
Covert Operations, Espionage and Intelligence in Agatha Christie’s Second World War Novels
It seems that Christie so dominates the genre of Golden Age detective fiction that study of her as a ‘political’ writer with noteworthy views on current domestic affairs has been neglected.
How Successful Were Playwrights of the 1970s in Accurately Highlighting Social and Political Issues in Scotland?
There was a lot of political unrest in Scotland from the 1960s and through to the 1970s and many playwrights used this as a focal point of their plays.
English Dissertation Topics
We have provided a selection of example English dissertation topics to help and inspire you when you’re choosing a dissertation topic.
Impact of WW1 on Ernest Hemingway’s Poetry
This research finds the reason behind PTSD in American society and the characters introduced to us by Ernest Hemingway in his works. And that reason was the First World War and its aftermath.
Analysing Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth
In Roger Manvell’s Book Peter Hall is quoted as saying “Shakespeare is no screen writer. He is a verbal dramatist, relying on the associative and metaphorical power of words…Even his stage a
Toni Morrison’s Contributions to American Literature
Paradoxically, immortality is not achieved through the defeat of biological death, but rather through the indomitability of the spirit, which leaves…
Analysing Slavery in Mark Twain’s Writing
INTRODUCTION
According to widely held view on slavery, it is has been acknowledged that it is ‘a virtually universal feature of human history’ that has preserved up to nowadays. As absolute
Analysis of the Term ‘Victorian’ Through Literature
The era of Queen Victoria’s reign witnessed the passing of milestones in social, economic, and personal progress. It was the age of industrialisation, a time of travel, a battleground for the co
Gender Relationships in Shakespeare’s Plays
The subject of gender relationships within the work of Shakespeare became a matter of lively debate during the last quarter of the twentieth century and continues to be an area that attracts much scho
Comparison of Miscegenation in ‘Last of The Mohicans’ and ‘Hope Leslie’
The aim of this dissertation is to compare and contrast the issue of miscegenation through the principal characters of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.
Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation
Introduction
Jack Kerouac was responsible for spawning the literary movement that became known as the Beat Generation, a movement not only significant to literature, but one which incorporated music a
Freudian and Jungian Literary Analysis: Under Milk Wood
This paper seeks to assert that Dylan Thomas’ play Under Milk Wood can be successfully viewed using Freudian and Jungian psychoanalytic techniques.
Female Character Analysis in Shakespeare and Austen
The Social and Feminist Influences of Austen and Shakespeare
Feminist thought is a movement truly indicative of a dynamic society. When manifested in literature, it signifies the breaking of old tradi
