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MSc/MA by research
Master's Degree

Level Master's Degree
Student Dr Stephanie Craighill
Status Complete
Part Time Yes
Years 2008 - 2010
Project Title The influence of duality and Poe?s notion of the ?Bi-Part Soul? on the genesis of detective fiction in the nineteenth-century
Project Description This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s notion of the ‘Bi-Part Soul’, and the associated theme of duality, in selected texts of nineteenth-century detective fiction. Poe’s detective opus, ‘The Murders in the R
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Linda Dryden
Second Supervisor Anne Schwan
Thesis The influence of duality and Poe’s notion of the ‘bi-part soul’ on the genesis of detective fiction in the Nineteenth-Century

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Federica Mascherpa
Status Current
Part Time Yes
Years 2019
Project Title Superstition in 19th Century Seafaring Literature: Melville and Conrad
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Linda Dryden
Additional Supervisor Emily Alder

PhD
Doctorate

Level Doctorate
Student Dr Emily Alder
Status Complete
Part Time No
Years 2003 - 2009
Project Title William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siecle
Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies Linda Dryden