Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Emily Dickinson's and Christina Rossetti's Portrayals of Goblins and their Threat to Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
Byron and the Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
"The Little Stop Before the Words": Bildungsroman and the Building of a Colonial Discourse in Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer
Orphic Descent in "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie
Raising their Voices: Women, Articulation and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Representing Culture and Class: An Exploration of Narrative Containment Strategies in Henry Mayhew and George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile
"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering of Drama in "Exiles" and "Circe", John F. X. Flynn
Narrative Mastery and Representational Violence in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation to Whitman, David B. Donlon
Latent Self-Revelation in Majorie Rawlings' "Cross Creek", Alexandra Duckworth
Romance in Henry James' "The Portrait of a Lady": A Study of Duality, Maria Elizabeth Litzendorf
The Influence of St Augustine on Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", andrew Damian Moran
Postcolonial Parodies of the Creation Story in Olive Schreiner and Wilson Harris, Jamie Jacqueline Quatro
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Jamaica Kincaid and the Rewriting of Other as Self, Michelle Collette Beal
Ralph and Lily: Victims in a Boundary World, Regina Marie Lucas
A Tale of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's and Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations of "The Vicar of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
Carnival Morality: The Freedom of Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun", Stephen Clawson Robertson
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Flannery O'Connor and the Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty
Spontaneous Feeling as Moral Power: The Role of Sentimentality in "Our Mutual Friend", Robin L. Fetherston
Tar Baby and the Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress
A Certain Threatening Picture: Images of Rape in Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett
"Recurring in This Body": James Dickey and the Quest for Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins
Spiritual Quest as Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" and its Relation to T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
What Our Seemers Be: Misreading Text, and Voice in "Measure for Measure", Thomas Lilly
"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, and Enslavement by Language, John andrew Lyman
Capturing Experience: Marlow's Narrative about Women in Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" and "Chance", Susan Elizabeth Martin-Joy
Authenticity and Blackness: Defining the Conflict in "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows
Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, the Highway and American Identity in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" and Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers
Celts in Hiding: The Search for Celtic Analogues in "Beowulf", Vincent Gabriel Passanisi
"For Every Substance is Conditioned to Change Her Hew, and Sundry Formes to Don": The Cultivation of Chastity in Spenser's "Garden of Adonis", Alyssa Jane Sveden
Swift's Vexed Satire of Hobbes and Lucretius, Sarah Reynard Thumm
Between "Word-Play and Evasion": Reading and Writing Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon
The Reception of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics of Interpretation and Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White
The "War between the Mind and Sky": The Poet, the Soldier, and the Centrality of the Epilogue to "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Virginia Woolf's Starving Artists, Beverly Ann Beyer
Piercing the Corporeal Veil: The Extra Stanza of "Pearl" as Spiritual Focal Point, Michael Blum
Tennyson's Lady of Shalott in Pre-Raphaelite Art: Exonerated Artist or Fallen Woman, Allyson McMahon Bourke
An Education in Virtue: Didacticism and Audience in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" and Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
On the Path to Paterson: Prose and the Search for the American Language, Mary Carolyn Click
The Narrator in the Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos
A Knowable World: America, the City, and the Thematics of Book Five of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
Calamus, Drum-Taps, and Whitman's Model of Comradeship, Charles B. Green
Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy and Reality in "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm
Paine, Blake and Hegemony, Grace Moore
The Search for Completion in Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler NcNeer
The Heavens or the Abyss: A Reading of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" as a Romance, Joseph Rives Nicholson
John Donne's Thwarted Redemption of Poetry in "A Valediction: of the Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance
The Once and Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Is All This Digression or Isn't it Digression: "Fourplay" and its Effects in Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier", Stephen Robert Bennett
Blake and the Enlightenment, Paul Ferrell Brown
Helmets off: Spenser's Britomart and Radigund Unveiled, Lorette Courchaine
"Beowulf": Worda and Worca, Christina M. Coyne
Achieving Cultural Identity in "Winter in the Blood" and "Ceremony", Jennifer Kay Davis
"Pym" and the Popular: Form and Structure of the Novel, Arif Ali Isani
Visions of Reality: A Comparison of Narrative Methods and Perspectives in "The Ambassadors" and "The Good Soldier", Rebecca Marie Kleinberg
Jack Kerouac: The Quest for Thoreau's West, Malcolm Coltrane Lester
"In the Language of the Outlaw": Joyce, Svevo, and the Appropriation of Marginalized Dialects, Adam Marc Morris
"Esoteric Sips": Dickinson's Wine and Liquor Imagery, Deborah Ann Yard
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
From Spirit to Flesh: Psalm 51 and the Practice of Paraphrase Under Henry VIII and Elizabeth Tudor, Susan Wise Bauer
Denying Authority: Monologic and Dialogic Perspectives in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", Kimberly Ann Brown
Male Moral Irresponsibility in Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", Dana B. Castle
The Problem of Time in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel", Patrick M. Curran
It is Time for Voices in "Between the Acts", Maureen Frances Curtin
Gender-Based Behavior in "A Streetcar Named Desire", Jordan Davis
Popular Culture, Thomas Beer, and the Making of "The Sound and the Fury", Lynn Dorsey Define
The Military Figure as Tragic Hero: Understanding the Actions of Macbeth, Allen Jacoway Gill
William Carlos Williams's "Spring and All": The Oneness of Experience, Molly Elayne Jones
"What Was Pat Lady?": The David and Bathsheba Story in Medieval and Early Renaissance English Literature, Stanley Kustesky
Daughter Seeks Reprieve: Charlotte Charke and Female Re/Presentation, Nolan Sinclair Marchand
Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison: Conflicting Masculinities, H. Alexander Nejako
Reading Molly Bloom, Theresa Lanpher Nugent
Does "Little Women" Belittle Women?: Female Influence in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", Anjali Prasad
Society and the Individual: A Study of Swinburne's "William Blake" and "Atlanta in Calydon", Mary McHale Riley
Cultural Determinism in "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Lynda Ann Thompson
The Measure of Satire in Pope and West, andrew Philip Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Autobiographical Images: Photography and Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men", Nancy Etta Allison
"Thro' Sleep as Thro' a Veil": Losing the Self to Find the Self in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti, Faye Roberta Buckalew
Homelessness in Abraham Cahan's Fiction, Martha Anne Collins
A Guy Telling a Long Wild Tale: The Masculine Myth in Kerouac's "On the Road", Paul Steven Collins
Truth and Exclusion: Verbal Dominance in "The House of Mirth", Teresa A. Genaro
The Visitor Who Never Comes: Emerson and Friendship, Wallace Coleman Green Jr.
"Such Closets to Search": Andrew Motion's "Love in a Life", Lisa Marie Haarlander
Walker Percy's Linguistic Alienation, John Vernon Halbrooks
Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" as an Extension of Woolf's Feminist Polemics, Patricia Ann Hoppe
Creating Meaning from the Meaningless: Existentialism and the Function of Language in Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky", Scott Michael Karr
A Voice of One's Own: Virginia Woolf, the Problem of Language, and Feminist Aesthetics, Lisa Karin Levine
A Distorting Mirror: "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "Jane Eyre", Laura Ellen Morey
His Lost City: F Scott Fitzgerald's New York, Kris Robert Murphy
Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway": Interpretation, Knowledge and Power, L. Monique Pittman
Hierarchial Compositions in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art and Poetry, Elizabeth Rackley
The Impact of the Sexually Vital Woman in Willa Cather's My Antonia and A Lost Lady, Amy Beth Rafferty
"A Girl Such as I am": A Study of Women in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series, Catherine Ann Renko
"A Bowery Nook Will be Elysium": The Image of the Bower in the Poetry of John Keats, Tracy Prior Seffers
David Hume and the Search for Social Consensus, Dominic Alexander Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Restrained with the Civil Sword: Spenser's "Maye" Eclogue and Donne's "Third Satyre" in the Context of the English Reformation, John David Allen
"What Mean?": The Postmodern Metafiction Within William Gaddis's "The Recognitions", Sean Butler
Illness and Anger: Issues of Power in "Wuthering Heights" and "Shirley", Margaret Elise Jordan
The Contempt of Folly: Hamlet's View of Polonius, Louise Ann Long
Generational Tension in Middle English Lais, Amelia Carroll Napier
Toni Morrison's Reclamation of Her Past, Timothy Kelly Nixon
