The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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The Contribution of Normative Expectations to Chronic Stress: A Focus on Stress in Clergy and Seminary Students' Wives, Anne Huebner

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Contextualizing Spiritual Authority in 'The Book of Margery Kempe', Mary L. Morse

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

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The Problem of Obscurity in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Charles Puthota

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"Spheral Change": D.G. Rossetti Envisioning An Alternative Victorian Masculinity, Jay D. Sloan

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Cantles of Contention: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, and Antony and Cleopatra, Michael G. Bielmeier

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The Petrarchan Convention and Tudor Court Politics in Poetry of Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney, Ok-Sook Hong

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The Otherness of blackness: Emergent Ambiguities in Early American Prose Literature, David L. White

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

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Old Times not Forgotten: Family and Storytelling in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature, Lisa Ann Cade Wieland

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Willa Cather and the American Idiom, Li Zhu

Submissions from 1997

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

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Discipline and Charity: John Milton's Christian Virtue As Self-Completion, Verda Mankowski Jaroszewski

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The Clothes That Make the Man: The Assumption of Male Disguise in Three 17th-Century Dramas, Kathleen M. Maurer

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"When Wit's More Ripe": A Defense of Shakespeare's Pericles, Sharon L. Muendel

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Unjustified Margins: Vernacular Innovations and Latin Tradition in Gower's Confessio Amantis, Patricia Batchelor

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The Wounding of Spenser's Fairie Queene: The Literal and Metaphorical Imagery that Guides the Reader's Journey, Christine M. Manion

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"Shouting from the Bottom of the Pit": Jennifer Johnston's Dialogue with the Reductive Power of Discourse, Barbara E. McLaughlin

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After All There was Nothing Impossible in It: Polemic and Utopia in the Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jennifer Ruth Thomson

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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The Mulatta Text and the Muted Voice in Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: Revising the Genre of the Slave Narrative, Rebecca Anne Ferguson

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The Publishing History of Aubrey Beardsley's Compositions for Oscar Wilde's Salomé, Joan Navarre

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Eugene O'Neill's Orientalism and the Search for Life: An Americanized Taoistic Response, Yuan-Xia Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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The Rhetoric of Imprisonment in Dickens, Donna Rae Foran

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John Fowles's Panoptic Vision, Patricia G. Lantier

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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Audience Response to Discontinuities in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Linda Clare Tolman

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"A Viper and Engine of the Devil": The Violent Woman and Female/Female Violence in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Wendy J. Wenner

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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The Mentoring Relationship: An Investigation of Communication Functions, Perceived Importance, and Gender, Amy S. Korpi

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Seamus Heaney and His Reader: Orchestrating the Discourses, Catharine Malloy

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

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Female mentor relationships in Henry James's The portrait of a lady, The Bostonians, and The golden bowl, Deborah L. A. Reitz

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Ezra Pound's Ideogrammic Poetics, Fan A. Shen

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Michael R. Molino

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Samuel Hazo: The Poetry of Resistance, David P. Sokolowski

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Subordination to Prominence: The Development of the Meredithian Heroine, Lisa Beranek Terasa

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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'Beyond the fields we know' : the short stories of Lord Dunsany, John D. Rateliff

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Reference and Structure: Literary Modernism and the Philosophy of Language, Terrence J. Riddell

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Grounded and Ungrounded Desire Through Four of Willa Cather's Novels, Edmund B. Miller

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For Love or Money: The Economics of Illicit Sexuality in English Eighteenth-Century Legal Sources and Prose Narratives, Kristen Hoffman Senior

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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John Dryden and the Affirmation of Tradition, Andrew J. Auge

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Revelation and Concealment, Woman and the Novels of Fanny Burney, Joanne L. Cutting-Gray

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The Renaissance Representation of the Other: Travel Literature, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, Nae Heui Kang

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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Social and Personal Transformation through Relationships in the Major Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jerome Burns

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John Masefield in the Twentieth Century, A Reputation Study, Lee Hammer

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Language in Technocracy: Samuel Beckett and the Word, Phillis Carey

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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Mannerist Motifs in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, Mary Beshear

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Normative Values in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction, James Bernard Mulvey

Theses/Dissertations from 1981

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Building an American City: The Fiction of Thornton Wilder, Michael Joe Vivion

Submissions from 1980

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

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Preaching Without Book: The Rhetoric of Religion in the Novels of George Eliot, Lance Davis Chase

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Jonson's Comic Circle: The Theatricality of the Comical Satires, Terrance Dunford

Theses/Dissertations from 1979

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Thorton Wilder: Perspective in Fiction and Belief, James Warren Blake Jr.

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Kingship in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Kenneth B. Grant

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Thematic Development in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, Michael John Hennessy

Theses/Dissertations from 1978

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The Textual History and Definitive Textual Apparatus for Soldiers' Pay: A Bibliographic Study of William Faulkner's First Novel, Francis John Bosha

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

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The Rhetoric of Right in Shakespeare's History Plays, Walter W. Cannon

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"No Place for Paragraphs": The Correspondence Between Hart Crane and Waldo Frank, Stephan Harvey Cook

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

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Edgar Allan Poe's Quest for Supernal Beauty, Lawrence George Dotolo

Theses/Dissertations from 1977

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Roy Fuller's poetry, Michael Conlon

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Harold Frederic's Social Vision: A Critical Study, Christopher Simoni

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1976

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The Genetic Structuralism of Lucien Goldmann: The Status and Problems of Method, William Boelhower

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"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

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The Dialecticism of Transcendence and Immanence in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Lou Ann Kriegisch

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

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The Tripartite Structure of the Works of Sir Thomas Malory, Patricia Carol Roby

Theses/Dissertations from 1975

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The Implications of Deviation from Order in Jacobean Comedy, Jerome Burns

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Tennyson and The Defense of Romantic Faith, Albert F. Moritz

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Irony in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee: False Prudence Exemplified in Fragments C and B2, Joyce H. Wells-Powell

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Pan-Humanism in the Novels of George Eliot, Joseph John

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Shaun The Post: James Joyce's Use of the Catholic Notion of Perfection in Finnegan's Wake, Philip W. Kenny

Shaun the Post: James Joyce's Use of the Catholic Notion of Perfection in Finnegans Wake, Philip W. Kenny

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THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THREE OF FAULKNER'S FAMILIES, COLLIN GILLES MATTON

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The Modern Pilgrims: Marriage and the Self in the Work of John Updike, Linda Marie Plagman

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Blake's Archetypal Tyger; a More Comprehensive View, James P. Shea

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Blake's Archetypal Tyger: A More Comprehensive View, James P. Shea

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The Dilemma of the Talented Woman: A Study in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Susan E. Siefert

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Cognitive Style, Self-Concept, and Expressed Willingness to Help Others, Douglas M. Soat

Theses/Dissertations from 1973

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Patterns of Imagery in Carson McCullers' Major Fiction, Donna M. Bauerly

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Conceptual and Artistic Limits of Eight Nineteenth Century British Literary Utopias, Mary Ann Klein

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Structure and Meaning in the Strangers and Brothers Novel Sequence of C.P. Snow, Robert Roland Neuman

Theses/Dissertations from 1972

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The "Atmospherical Medium": A Study of the Romantic Milieu in Hawthorne's Major Fiction, Regina Hansen

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NIGHT JOURNEY UNDER THE SEA: THEODORE ROETHKE'S SEARCH FOR THE SELF, SUZANNE HELEN HUDSON

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Ernest Into Game: The Truth of Fiction in The Canterbury Tales , Theresa Moritz

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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The scent of blood and roses : a consideration of anti-semitism in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale", Sr. Patricia Kenny

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Wonder: Sunshine and Shadow Celebration in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Virginia Levey

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Wonder: Sunshine and Shadow Celebration in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Virginia Rhea Morris Levey

Theses/Dissertations from 1970

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Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees: A New Interpretation, David McCosh

Theses/Dissertations from 1967

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The Poor-Rich Gain: An Examination of the Love Relationships in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece , Robin C. Mitchell

Theses/Dissertations from 1961

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Cathy: The First Three Chapters of An Original Novel, Beverly K. Butler

Theses/Dissertations from 1960

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Sherwood Anderson's Idea of the Country Weekly Newspaper, John H. Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 1957

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The Dramatic Criticism of Henry James: An Examination and Evaluation, Bernardine McKenna

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The Critical Reception of the First and Second Editions of the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rosalie C. Whelan

Theses/Dissertations from 1956

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Kenneth Burke: Study of the Criticism of Criticism, Daniel V. Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 1955

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Felt Thought in the Criticism of Metaphysical Poetry, William C. Forrest

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Special Problems In Teaching the "Fundamentals Course in Speech" to Novices in a Community of Religious Sisters, Mary Clare Edward Whalen