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.
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
Commentary on Wordsworth in American Periodicals 1861-1899, M. Patricia Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1936
Problems in Milton (1914-1934), Edward A. Jenne
Theses/Dissertations from 1935
Deities and Heroes of Classical Mythology in Romantic Poetry, Bernadine Block
Attacks on Dryden's Catholicism, Joseph Finger
The Heroic Simile in the Faerie Queene, Rosamond B. Jordan
Harriet Prescott Spofford; Her Life, Works, and Criticism, Mary Elizabeth McGowan
John Keats in America: 1821 to 1900, Mary Evangelist Morgan
Theses/Dissertations from 1934
Chaucer's Friar, Mary Laurencita Grennan
The Technique of Thomas Hardy's Novels, Agnes Mary Redmond
Theses/Dissertations from 1933
Literary Patronage and Authors' Livelihood in England under Charles I and Cromwell, S. Katherine Lehmann
Theses/Dissertations from 1932
Tartar Legend in English Literature, Jerome W. Archer
The Faust Story in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Byron's Manfred: A Comparison of the Two Plays, Sylvester G. Peters
Christopher Smart: His Life and Works, Alice La Boule Tallmadge
Theses/Dissertations from 1931
Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Bernard Roi Campbell
Edward Fitzgerald's Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam, Bernard Roi Campbell
The Attacks on the Stage From Stephen Gosson To Jeremy Collier, Berdice Josephine Moran
Madison Cawein As a Nature Poet, Victoria Shea
Shelley Considered in Relation to His Contemporary Critics, Mary Rosenda Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1930
The Influence of Schopenhauer on the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Hardy, Helen F. Corrigan
The Relation of Knowledge and of Love to Life As Deduced From the Poems of Robert Browning, Alice Elizabeth Diebels
The Relation of Christina Rossetti in Her Life and Poetry to the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, Edna L. Goeden
Goldsmith and Sheridan in Relation to the Sentimental Comedy Which Preceded Them, Carol O'Brien
The Relationship of Romanticism and Realism in the Poets of the Middle-West, Bertha R. Ott
The pioneering of Percy Mackaye in the Field of Communal Drama, Marian Scanlan
Ibsen and the English Theater, Ruth E. Smith
Materials for An Edition of the Rhemes "Nevv Testament", 1582: Part I. S. Matthew, Chapters I to XIV, Paul David Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1928
A Critical Estimate of the Poet Francis Thompson, John J. Barry
Imagery and Allusion in the Poetry of Francis Thompson With Particular Reference to the Sources, Jessie D. Corrigan
A Study of John M. Synge and His Relation to Irish Tradition and Character, Catherine Doyle
The Influence of Milton's Classical Elegies With a Translation of Epitaphium Damonis, George Russell Griffin
Social Aspects of the English Romantic Revolt, Lorraine Catherine Kusta
Aesthetic Principles and Changing Moral Viewpoints in the Poetry of John Keats, Mary Wilberta Rauch
Theses/Dissertations from 1927
Naturalism in the Galsworthy Theatre, Bertha Caffrey
Platonism in Some English Romantic Poets, George R. Griffin
Social Forces in the English Novel: 1875-1900, Victor Hamm
The Dramatic Monologue As Peculiarly Suitable To the Genius of Browing, Mary Olive Lepine
The Ethical Aspect of Romanticism Judged from the Works of Wordsworth and Shelley, Frances Clare Nock
The Song in Elizabethan Drama: with Particular Reference to Its Function in Shakespeare, John Joseph Plamondon
Theses/Dissertations from 1926
Moral and Social Values in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley, Mary Ethelbert Burns
An Evaluation of Greek and Modern English Tragedy in Their Relation to and Treatment of Basic Moral Principles, Madeline O'Brien
The Influence of Seneca on the University Wits With Special Reference to Marlowe, Margerert Martha White
Theses/Dissertations from 1925
Shakespeare and the theatre of Musset, Alice Dana Brown
The Relation of W.B. Yeats to the Heroic Literature of Ancient Ireland, Ellen Frances Finan
A Study of Milton's Latin Poems from the Biographical and Literary Viewpoints, Mary Camilla Keefe
The Optimism in Browning is the Result of His Belief in God and in the Immortality of the Soul, Mabelle Gertrude Ziegler
Theses/Dissertations from 1923
The Novel as Propaganda, Allen Frank Lenicheck