Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The demise of the tribe in Edith Wharton's old New York: A comparative study of "The House of Mirth" and "The Age of Innocence", Nancy Z. Fitch
St George Tucker's "Narrative of Moses Do-Little": An Edition with Critical Commentary, James A. Frazier
The "Private History," Grant, and West Point: Mark Twain's exculpatory triad, Franklin J. Hillson
The women in "Sister Carrie", Mary Jackson Lutz
Physical and attitudinal metamorphoses in "The Wife of Bath's Tale", Lynn Mowry
Richard Wilbur and the hypnagogic state, Beverly Peterson
The distinctive character types in Henry James' New England fiction, Karen E. Pilson
The shock of brass on porcelain: Egotism and "The Sacred Fount", Georgia Taft Pye
The high-level fool as critic: Mark Twain and music, Lana A. Whited
Freedom in the early American novel (1790--1800), Ann Ruth Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
The "Hymn to Pan" and thematic structure in "Endymion", Nancy Kathryn Bost
The importance of Donjalolo in Melville's "Mardi", Ronald Elwood Brown
Egyptian myth and Walt Whitman's "Lilacs", Rosemary Landow Gates
The men in "The House of Mirth", Irene C. Goldman
The shapers in John Gardner's "Grendel", Robert S. Grunska
Urban emergence and the pastoral ideal: A study of three related works by William Dean Howells, Robert Francis Lastowski
The hidden life in "The Golden Bowl": An imagery of ambiguity, Mary Elizabeth Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
St George Tucker's "Fairy Hill": A critical edition, Alyson Jane Francis Cooper
"All the lost youth in the world": Youth worship in F Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night", Maria R. Freeman
"Life's sweet calculations": Emily Dickinson's mathematics of experience, Martha Dix Graham
Feminism in Henry James's "The Bostonians", Helen Eugenia Hester
Marlow's Auditors, Susan Marie Wilson Lyons
"Tales of the Jarvis Valley": A study of Dylan Thomas' early fiction, Nancy C. Parrish
The education through nature of Robert Jordan in "For Whom the Bell Tolls", Francis J. Sersanti
St George Tucker's two "Old Batchellor" essays on duelling: An edition with critical commentary, Gary Dale Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
"The tale of Sir Tristam": its role in Malory's "Le morte Darthur", Barbara Ann Crump
The chameleon poet's delight: Keats' treatment of the serpent tradition in "Lamia", Terrie Diane Dopp
Pastoral imagery in Irving's "History of New York", Elizabeth Maria Johns
Three American ambivalences in the works of Sidney Lanier, Wayne Studer
The capacity to wonder: An approach to C S Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia", Deborah Cynthia Taylor
The cultivation theme in Hawthorne's novels, Jill Meznar Thompson
A consideration of idealism in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim", Wilbur Lee Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
A Reading of Death and Life, Lisa Belloni
Theodore Roethke's "Beckoning Rose", Celeste Goodridge
"Heart of Darkness" and "Benito Cereno": A Comparative Study, Carla Mary Kay
Ishmael and His Sleeping Partners, John Langley
The Voice of Doubt, the Voice of Denial: A Comparative Study of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson, Eloise Suzanne Owens
Comedy and Tragedy in Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo", Audrey Joan Serniak
Behavior in a World of Flux: Rochester's Poetic Vision, Mitchell A. Sutterfield
Tone and Intention in Swift's Verses on His Own Death, Eleanor Leslie Taylor
The Child of Decrepitude: Sexual Incompetence in "Tristram Shandy", Nancy Joe Weeks
Reversals of Fate in "The Knight's Tale", John Wing
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Hemingway's Sub-Text in "The Sun Also Rises", Nigel Alastair Roy Cutting
The Search for Truth: Narrative Technique in "Lord Jim" and "Absalom, Absalom!", Jacquelyn King Donegan
St George Tucker's Essay "For the Old Batchellor" in Praise of Virginia Women: A Critical Edition, John Lee Hare
A Reading of Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid", Craig McDonald
The Romantic and Tragic Ballads: Popular Dreams for an Egalitarian Society?, Shirlee Alcinda McGuire
The Anatomy of Pain in Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Emily Paul Miller
Fitzgerald's Schizoid Stahrr: America's Past, Present and Future in "The Last Tycoon", Rosalind Urbach Moss
The Treatment of Love and Marriage in Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" and Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady", Susan Shepeard
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
An Examination of John Osborne's "Luther" in Light of Erik Erikson's "Young Man Luther" and Historical Tradition, Anne Lawrence McIntosh Bowman
St George Tucker's "Vision of Selim": An Edited Text with Introduction and Critique, Angela H. Patmore
Against Stanza-Pairing: Another Look at Correspondences between Stanzas in Spenser's "Epithalamion", Paula Clark Rankin
"To Have and Have Not": World without a Hero, Joy Louisa Spaugh
Robert Herrick's Imitations of Tibullus: A Re-Examination, David Rogerson Sutton
Nicole and the Gardens in "Tender is the Night", Suzanne Whitmore Jones West
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Completeness and Unity of "Between the Acts", David Lansing Ackiss
St George Tucker's Essay "For the Old Batchellor" "The History of Contentment, an Allegory", Vance Crockett Bird
The Liturgical Calendar in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Kathleen Daire Connelly
Sacred and Profane: The Love Relationship in "A Farewell to Arms", Joan Marie Detz
Culture and Radicalism in "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
St George Tucker's "Old Bachelor" Essay on Benevolence and Slavery: A critical edition, Richard Chisholm Kerns
A Sporting Way: A Study of Hunting and Fishing in Some of the Writing of Ernest Hemingway, Frances Luckett Musick
The Hollywood Metaphor: F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" (1941) and Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" (1939), Anthony Glyn Roberts
Robert Cohn in "The Sun Also Rises": A Failure of Vision, Jan Garnett Van Horn
The Social Mean: Freedom and Restraint in William Wycherley's Plays, James Ray Weidman
Guilt and Atonement in "Lord Jim" and "Under Western Eyes", Norma Sue Tester Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
The Heroic Image in a Modern World: Enlightened Naturalism in Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", Winifred Allison Bailey
The Function of Irony in Wallace Stevens' "Esthétique du mal", Isota Tucker Epes
What Price Greatness: A Study of the Protagonists in Three Plays by Henrik Ibsen---"The Master Builder", "John Gabriel Borkman", and "When We Dead Awaken", Janet Rose Fuchs
The Pearl-Poet's Imaginative Treatment of His Biblical Source in "Cleanness", Laura Ruth McCord
Reaffirmation in the Last Poems of Stevens and Yeats, Gael Monie O'Brien
The Kinship between "Moby Dick" and "The Divine Comedy", Lynne Elizabeth Thornton
St George Tucker's Essay "For the Old Batchellor" on Avarice: A Critical Edition, Mary Beth Wentworth
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
St George Tucker's "Old Bachelor" Essay on Patriots and Demagogues: A Critical Edition, Daniel Gaver Harvey
Bernard in Virginia Woolf's "The Waves", Linda Heyniger
Patience and the Unity of the Cotton Nero A.x Manuscript, Diane Halsted Jefferson
Late 18th Century Adaptations of Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humour" and "Epicoene", Henry George Morris
Artistic and Thematic Unity in the "Romance of the Rose": The Function of Reason, Nature and Genius, Esme O'Connor
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
John Barth: From the Eighteenth Century to a New Aesthetic Philosophy: A Critical Study of "The Sot-Weed Factor", Elizabeth Lindsey Britton
Affirmation of Life and the Prospect of Death in Robinson's "Isaac and Archibald", Bryce Elaine Druff
St George Tucker's "The Patriot Rous'd": A Critical Edition, Barry Linn -- editors edition Kincaid
Allegory and Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice", Laury Temple Lof
St George Tucker's "Old Bachelor" Letter on Language and Literature in America: A Critical Edition, Anne Elizabeth McCorkle
The Process of Poetic Exploration in E A Robinson's "Captain Craig", Wendy Burns Tilghman
The Puritan Conscience in the Diary of Samuel Sewall, Carson Linwood Tucker
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
The Roles of Merlin, Morgan, and Nyneve in "Morte Darthur": The Supernatural in Arthur's Tragedy, Glenda Bates
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Ben Jonson: The Poet as Maker, Glenda Pevey Rhyne
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
The Decline and Fall of Arcadia: A Study in Eighteenth Century Thought, Barbara Joan Richards
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
The Girl in the Novels of Marcel Proust., Dorothy Badders Schlegel
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
Indecorus Language in Shakespeare, Alice Cowles Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
The Sources of John Keat's Poem "Hyperion", Elizabeth Grinnan Jackson
Theses/Dissertations from 1935
Robert Burns and the Old South, Reginald Arthur Kenney
Theses/Dissertations from 1934
The Influence of Vergil's "Aeneid" Upon the Epic Technique of Spenser's "The Faerie Queen", Florence Jackson Blocker
Lord Byron's Opinions on Religion., Roberta Cridlin
The Woman's Question as Viewed by Poets of the 19th Century, Margaret L. Harter
"Love's Labour's Lost": A Travesty, Robert Coleman Moses
Theses/Dissertations from 1932
Uniformity of Theme in Eugene O'Neill: Nature, a Sentient Factor in Man's Destiny, Annye Brittingham Burbank
Carl Sandburg as a Poet of Chicago and the Middle West, Howard Robertson Richardson
The Poetic Theory and Practice of James VI of Scotland, James I of England, Helen McHardy Walker