Submissions from 2008

"An improbable fiction": The marriage of history and romance in Shakespeare's Henriad, Marcia Eppich-Harris

The Gothic novel and the invention of the middle-class reader: "Northanger Abbey" as case study, Tenille Nowak

Not just a novel of epic proportions: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as modern American epic, Dana Edwards Prodoehl

Recovering the radicals: Women writers, reform, and nationalist modes of revolutionary discourse, Mark J Zunac

Submissions from 2007

"The sweet and the bitter": Death and dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", Amy M Amendt-Raduege

The games men play: Madness and masculinity in post-World War II American fiction, 1946--1964, Thomas P Durkin

Genderless bodies: Stigma and the myth of womanhood, Ellen M Letizia

Envy and jealousy in the novels of the Brontes: A synoptic discernment, Margaret Ann McCann

Technologies of the late medieval self: Ineffability, distance, and subjectivity in the "Book of Margery Kempe", Crystal L Mueller

"Finding...a map...to that place called home": The journey from silence to recovery in Patrick McCabe's "Carn" and "Breakfast on Pluto", Valerie A Murrenus Pilmaier

Emily Dickinson's ecocentric pastoralism, Moon-ju Shin

The American jeremiad in Civil War literature, Jacob Hadley Stratman

Submissions from 2006

Literary art in times of crisis: The proto-totalitarian anxiety of Melville, James, and Twain, Matthew J Darling

(Re)writing genre: Narrative conventions and race in the novels of Toni Morrison, Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

"Amsolookly kersse": Clothing in "Finnegans Wake", Catherine Simpson Kalish

"Do your will": Shakespeare's use of the rhetoric of seduction in four plays, Jason James Nado

Woman in emblem: Locating authority in the work and identity of Katherine Philips (1632--1664), Susan L Stafinbil

When the bough breaks: Poetry on abortion, Wendy A Weaver

Submissions from 2005

Heroic destruction: Shame and guilt cultures in medieval heroic poetry, Karl E Boehler

Poe and early (un)American drama, Amy C Branam

Grammars of assent: Constructing poetic authority in an age of science, William Myles Carroll

This place is not a place: The constructed scene in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Colin J Marlaire

Cognitive narratology: A practical approach to the reader-writer relationship, Debra Ann Ripley

Submissions from 2004

Defoe and the pirates function of genre conventions in raiding narratives, William J Dezoma

Creative discourse in the eighteenth-century courtship novel, Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty

Exclusionary politics: Mourning and modernism in the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew, Donna Decker Schuster

Submissions from 2003

Toward a re-formed confession: Johann Gerhard's "Sacred Meditations" and "repining restlessnesse" in the poetry of George Herbert, Erik Peder Ankerberg

Idiographic spaces: Representation, ideology and realism in the postmodern British novel, Gordon B McConnell

Submissions from 2002

Reading into it: Wallace Stegner's novelistic sense of time and place, Colin Charles Irvine

Brisbane and beyond: Revising social capitalism in mid-nineteenth-century America, Michael Charles Mattek

Submissions from 2001

Christians and mimics in W. B. Yeats' "Collected Poems", Patrick Shannon Mulrooney

Renaissance roles and the process of social change, John Jerome Wieland

'Straunge disguize': Allegory and its discontents in Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Galina Ivanovna Yermolenko

Submissions from 2000

Reading American women's autobiography: Spheres of identity, spheres of influence, Amy Corine Getty

"Making strange": The art and science of selfhood in the works of John Banville, Heather Maureen Moran

Writing Guadalupe: Mediacion and (mis)translation in borderland text(o)s, Jenny T Olin-Shanahan

Submissions from 1999

Setting the word against the word: The search for self-understanding in "Richard II", Richard Jean Erable

Contextualizing spiritual authority in "The Book of Margery Kempe", Mary Lynn Morse

The depiction of religion in eighteenth-century English literature from Swift to Johnson, Beverly Trescott Mueller

The problem of obscurity in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Charles Puthota

"Spheral change": D. G. Rossetti envisioning an alternative Victorian masculinity, Jay D Sloan

Submissions from 1998

Cantles of contention: A Kierkegaardian reading of "Hamlet", "Troilus and Cressida", and "Antony and Cleopatra", Michael G Bielmeier

The Petrarchan convention and Tudor court politics in poetry of Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney, Ok-Sook Hong

For love or money: The economics of illicit sexuality in English eighteenth-century legal sources and prose narratives, Kristen Hoffman Senior

The otherness of blackness: Emergent ambiguities in early American prose literature, David Lawrence White

Old times not forgotten: Family and storytelling in twentieth-century Southern literature, Lisa Ann Cade Wieland

Willa Cather and the American idiom, Li Zhu

Submissions from 1997

The theologization of English: A history of the rise and development of academic English studies in Britain and America, Joel Robert Christenson

Discipline and charity: John Milton's Christian virtue as self-completion, Verda Mankowski Jaroszewski

The clothes that make the man: The assumption of male disguise in three 17th-century dramas, Kathleen M Maurer

"When wit's more ripe": A defense of Shakespeare's "Pericles", Sharon Louise Muendel

Submissions from 1996

Unjustified margins: Vernacular innovations and Latin tradition in Gower's "Confessio amantis", Patricia Ann Batchelor

The wounding of Spenser's "Faerie Queene": The literal and metaphorical imagery that guides the reader's journey, Christine Monica Manion

"Shouting from the bottom of the pit": Jennifer Johnston's dialogue with the reductive power of discourse, Barbara Ellen McLaughlin

After all there was nothing impossible in it: Polemic and utopia in the writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jennifer Ruth Thomson

Submissions from 1995

The mulatta text and the muted voice in "Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon": Revising the genre of the slave narrative, Rebecca Anne Ferguson

The publishing history of Aubrey Beardsley's compositions for Oscar Wilde's "Salome", Joan Marie Navarre

Eugene O'Neill's Orientalism and the search for life: An Americanized Taoistic response, Yuan-Xia Zhang

Submissions from 1994

The rhetoric of imprisonment in Dickens, Donna Rae Foran

John Fowles's panoptic vision, Patricia G Lantier

Submissions from 1993

Audience response to discontinuities in Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta" and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida", Linda Clare Tolman

"A viper and engine of the devil": The violent woman and female/female violence in eighteenth-century fiction, Wendy J Wenner

Submissions from 1992

Seamus Heaney and his reader: Orchestrating the discourses, Catharine Denise Malloy

Female mentor relationships in Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady", "The Bostonians", and "The Golden Bowl", Deborah L. A Reitz

Submissions from 1991

Questioning tradition, language, and myth: The poetry of Seamus Heaney, Michael Robert Molino

Subordination to prominence: The development of the Meredithian heroine, Lisa Beranek Terasa

Submissions from 1990

Reference and structure: Literary modernism and the philosophy of language, Terrence Joseph Riddell

Submissions from 1989

Williston Bibb Barrett and the Myth of the Fall in Walker Percy's "The Last Gentleman" and "The Second Coming", Bernadette Milada Prochaska

Submissions from 1987

John Dryden and the affirmation of tradition, Andrew J Auge

Submissions from 1986

REVELATION AND CONCEALMENT: WOMAN AND THE NOVELS OF FANNY BURNEY (FEMINISM), JOANNE L CUTTING-GRAY

THE RENAISSANCE REPRESENTATION OF THE OTHER: TRAVEL LITERATURE, SPENSER, SHAKESPEARE, AND MILTON (TEXTUAL STRATEGY, RESISTANT READING), NAE HEUI KANG

THE RECIPROCITY OF SPACE AND SELF IN FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELISTS: JANE AUSTEN, GEORGE ELIOT, CHARLES DICKENS, AND THOMAS HARDY, LAURALEE WEISS ZLOGAR

Submissions from 1985

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MAJOR ROMANCES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (MASSACHUSETTS), JEROME EDWARD BURNS

JOHN MASEFIELD IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A REPUTATION STUDY (POETRY, CRITICISM), LEE HAMMER

MECHANICAL FACTORS AND THE THRESHOLD OF TRAUMA OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL JOINT - A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS WITH EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION (SPINAL INJURY, NONLINEAR, FUNCTIONAL UNIT/DISC, MATHEMATICAL MODEL, LOW BACK PAIN), NARAYAN YOGANANDAN

Submissions from 1984

LANGUAGE IN TECHNOCRACY: SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE WORD (IRELAND, FRANCE), PHYLLIS EDNA CAREY

A LABORIOUS 'NEW BIBLE': CARLYLE'S RELIGIOUS SEMIOSIS, BRYCE J CHRISTENSEN

Submissions from 1983

MANNERIST MOTIFS IN JOHN WEBSTER'S "THE DUCHESS OF MALFI" AND "THE WHITE DEVIL", MARY LYELLE BESHEAR

NORMATIVE VALUES IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S FICTION, JAMES BERNARD MULVEY

Submissions from 1981

STRUCTURE, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND TRANSFORMATION IN JAMES FENIMORE COOPER'S "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS", STEVEN POWERS BLAKEMORE

BUILDING AN AMERICAN CITY: THE FICTION OF THORNTON WILDER, MICHAEL JOE VIVION

Submissions from 1980

PREACHING WITHOUT BOOK: THE RHETORIC OF RELIGION IN THE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT, LANCE DAVIS CHASE

JONSON'S COMIC CIRCLE: THE THEATRICALITY OF THE COMICAL SATIRES, TERRANCE RAY DUNFORD

Submissions from 1979

THORNTON WILDER: PERSPECTIVE IN FICTION AND BELIEF, JAMES WARREN BLAKE

KINGSHIP IN JOHN GOWER'S "CONFESSIO AMANTIS", KENNETH B GRANT

THEMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE POETRY OF CHARLES TOMLINSON, MICHAEL JOHN HENNESSY

Submissions from 1978

THE TEXTUAL HISTORY AND DEFINITIVE TEXTUAL APPARATUS FOR "SOLDIERS' PAY": A BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDY OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S FIRST NOVEL, FRANCIS JOHN BOSHA

BEYOND THE MEANING OF HISTORY: THE QUEST FOR A SOUTHERN MYTH IN FAULKNER'S CHARACTERS, KATHLEEN SHINE CAIN

THE RHETORIC OF RIGHT IN SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY PLAYS, WALTER WILLIAM CANNON

"NO PLACE FOR PARAGRAPHS": THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HART CRANE AND WALDO FRANK, STEPHAN HARVEY COOK

EDGAR ALLAN POE'S QUEST FOR SUPERNAL BEAUTY, LAWRENCE GEORGE DOTOLO

Submissions from 1977

ROY FULLER'S POETRY, MICHAEL PAUL CONLON

HAROLD FREDERIC'S SOCIAL VISION: A CRITICAL STUDY, CHRISTOPHER SIMONI

Submissions from 1976

THE GENETIC STRUCTURALISM OF LUCIEN GOLDMANN: THE STATUS AND PROBLEMS OFMETHOD, WILLIAM QUENTIN BOELHOWER

"FOR CONTEMPLATION HEE AND VALOR FORM'D": THE DICHOTOMY OF THE ACTIVE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIVES IN JOHN MILTON'S "PARADISE LOST," "PARADISE REGAINED," AND "SAMSON AGONISTES.", JOHN JAMES COGAN

FROM INNOCENCE THROUGH EXPERIENCE: A STUDY OF THE ROMANTIC CHILD IN FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS, DONNA MARIE PERRY

THE TRIPARTITE STRUCTURE OF THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS MALORY, PATRICIA CAROL ROBY

Submissions from 1975

TENNYSON AND THE DEFENSE OF ROMANTIC FAITH, ALBERT FRANK MORITZ

Submissions from 1974

PAN-HUMANISM IN THE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT, JOSEPH JOHN

SHAUN THE POST: JAMES JOYCE'S USE OF THE CATHOLIC NOTION OF PERFECTION IN "FINNEGANS WAKE.", PHILIP WILLIAM KENNY