Referencing style is MHRA – it is very important to follow the same patterns of MHRA style.
plan of the dissertation:
title:
Representations of masculinity in Thomas Hardys novels
Abstract: 250 words
Introduction:
– Expected word count 1000
Clarify key terms in the dissertation and how I understand masculinity in Thomas Hardy (alongside how other writers have viewed it too. And if possible how Thomas hardy understood it.
Main body of the project:
I expect the main body of the project to be divided into three sections or parts.
First part: The Mayor of Casterbridge
– Expected word count 3300
Second part: Tess of the DUrbervilles
– Expected word count 3300
Third part: Jude the Obscure
– Expected word count 3300
Conclusion:
– 1000 words
Proposed Sources:
– Mallett, Phillip, The Victorian Novel and Masculinity, (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
– Mallett, Phillip, Thomas Hardy in Context, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
– Horlacher, Stefan, Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice, (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015)
– Smith, Anne, The Novels of Thomas Hardy, (London: Vision Press, 1979)
– Millgate, Michael, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (London: Bodley Head, 1971)
– Millgate, Michael, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
– Kramer, Dale, Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Thomas Hardy (London: Macmillan, 1979)
– Sumner, Rosemary, Thomas Hardy: Psychological Novelist, (London: Macmillan, 1981)
– Dorn, Maria. “”I WON’T BE A SLAVE TO THE PAST – I’LL LOVE WHERE I CHOOSE”‘: GENDER AND TIME PARADIGMS IN THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE. (Article by Maria Dorn)
– GLIMMERINGS OF THE POSTMODERN IN JUDE THE OBSCURE (Article by Samir Albarbary)
– The Ideological Questions of Marriage in Thomas Hardys Jude the Obscure (Article)
– On Suffering and Sympathy: Jude the Obscure, Evolution, and Ethics (Article by Caroline Sumpter)
– Hardy and the Vanity of Procreation (Article by Aaron Matz)
you can find a file under the name (sample with comments) I sent it to my supervisor and you can find her comments and edit the first part of the dissertation and what follows accordingly. I have used unaccepted sources like students essays. You should avoid that. Only article written by known writers, books, chapters of books and published dissertations are accepted.