Theses/Dissertations from 1998
"Painted Fire": fire Imagery in Life on the Mississippi and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Deborah T. Ketchum
Cather's New World Cultural Exploitation vs. Cultural Cohesion in Sapphira and the Slave Girl, The Professor's House and Shadows on the Rock, Alexandra Meighan
"That Damned Morality": Willa Cather's Reaction against Victorian Female Roles in O Pioneers! and Tje Song of the Lark, Sarah Elizabeth Moore Horne
Giving Her A Voice: The Representation of the Black Woman in Four Short Stories, Jennifer Sheeler
Revolutionary Trickster Communities: Re-presenting Folk Heroes in Contemporary African American Novels, Susan C. Stinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Anne Sexton's Poetic Quest for God, Heather Lee Lustig
Battling the Dragons: The Heroic Journeys of the Ladies of Avalon in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Dawn E. Owen
"The Holy Grail": An Epic Spiritual Quest for Modern Times by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Rodney Llyn Shetler
Exploring African American Identity in Harlem: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, Michelle Lynn Simone
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Gender Within Genre: Perspectives on the Southern Hunting Tradition, J. Andrew Cocke
From Belle to Whore: Southern Stereotypes in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Sandra Compton Simmons
STRENGTH WITHIN--LOVE: The Story within the Story, Wanda T. Talbott
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Hills and Hollers: The Importance of Place in Lee Smith's Novels Set in Appalachia, Sandra Joyce Dukes
Women and Family in the Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver, Laura Ann Gussett
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Miles Franklin: The American Fulfillment of My Brilliant Career, Mary-Robyn Adams
The Clergy in the Novels and Short Stories of Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Lynn Facchine
Burdens and Blessings: An Examination of the Works of Ernest J. Gaines from an Agrarian Perspective, Ellen Gray M. Hogan
Mirrors, Pluggers, and Flashlights: The Women of Lee Smith's Fiction, Elizabeth Guthrie Talley
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
The Past and the Family Experience: Traditional Southern Themes in the Work of Lee Smith, Theresa Martin
Ayn Rand, Female Misogynist: A Study of Androgyny in Atlas Shrugged, Sara Kristin Parker
Madness and Hope: Military Experience as Theme and Symbol in Contemporary African-American Drama, Ashley Reed Warren
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Once Upon a Time: Storytelling and Reader-Response Theory in Donald Harington's Lightning Bug, Beth Camillo
The Manifestation of Thomas Hardy's Agnosticism in Jude the Obscure and Other Works, Joy Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Study in Literary Naturalism, J. Katherin Huffman
Reader, Take a Letter: The Reappearance of the Epistolary Form in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, Carla S. Huskey
Lee Smith's Protagonists: Moving Beyond Stereotypes of Southern and Appalachian Women, Roxie Amos Johnson
Pearl Buck Reconsidered: The House of Earth Trilogy, Qishu Li
Women as Victims of society in Anna Karenina and The Awakening, Sanjukta Mukherjee
An Illumination of the Damned: Psychoanalytic Exploration of Character Through American Naturalism in Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware, Steve Randall Spain Jr.
The Heroic Journey of Troilus and Cressida, Kelly A. Weatherman
Women Pioneer Diaries, 1820-1920: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Sonia Alvarez Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The Strength of Hoffman's Women, Martha McGuire Hundley
Self-Expression in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Joy Mapp
Fiction as Autobiography, Autobiography as Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Dust Tracks on a Road.", Cathy L. Morgan
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Tongue's Worth: The Use of Language to Preserve Culture in Havelok the Dane and The Mabinogion, Robin Davidson Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
A Victorian View of Old Age: Legacy to the Twentieth Century, Maria M. Baber
The Role of Selfhood in Maxine Hong Kingston's Major Works, Moses Mi
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Sympathy for the Devil, Elizabeth Wickham Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
James A. Michener: Social Historian, Elizabeth Conrad
MARK TWAIN'S USES OF SUFFERING IN THE WRITER-CHARACTER-READER TRIAD, Virginia Armiger Grant
The Role of Narrator in Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Frances M. Smith
Emily Dickinson: "The Face We Choose to Miss", Donna Marie Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
The Bonfire of the Vanities Before Binding: Tom Wolfe, the Readers, and Time, Donna E. Breckenridge
Poe's Narrators: The Unity of Effect in "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" and Selected Tales, Susan E. Frank
The Art of Excellence: A Study of Flannery O'Connor's Use of Grotesquerie, Humor, and Religion in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Melanie L. Hyman
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
VISIONS OF YESTERDAY, TODAY . . . AND MOMENTS YET TO COME, Linda E. Armstrong
Kit Brandon Revisited: Social Comment and Literary Experimentation in the Final Novel of Sherwood Anderson, Bruce Hopkins
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Ellen Glasgow's Characters in an Uncivilized World, Linda H. Gallagher
A Study of John Henry Newman's Influence on Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Robert J. McEleney
The Development of the Gyre in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats, Rebecca D. Miller
A Study of the Rhythmic Loss and Gain of Good Fortune in Victorian Fiction, Melinda A. Rash
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Fallen Angels: William Faulkner's Lost Generation, Ron Buchanan
The Evolution of the Hemingway Code Hero, Anita C. Crutchfield
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S WOMEN -- VICTIMS OF SOCIETY, Rachel N. Overstreet
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette: A Woman's Perspective, Rebecca Jill Forrester
Peredur to Percival: The Rise and Fall of the Original Grail Knight, Sandra Eddins Gee
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
"A Higher Degree of Manhood" William Hoffman's Novels of Initiation, Mary Hinton Davis
A Dramatic Adaptation of William Hoffman's Novel "A Death of Dreams.", La Vinia Delois Jennings
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
ALL RIVERS RUN INTO THE SEA, Anne Hunt
IN A BULL'S EYE: A DECADE OF CRITICISM, 1970-1980, Judith Roberts Land
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Whitman and Dickinson More Strangers than Akin, Angeline Webb Frank
Chaucer's Literary Road from Romance to Reality, Kendal E. Mitchell
CREATIVE THESIS: CHARACTER REVELATION IN POETRY, Katherine Y. Stuart
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
ROBERT PENN WARREN AND THE ROMANCE, Ann C. Conner
William Faulkner and the Meaning of History, Allen C. Lovelace
The Influence of Politics and Patriotism on the Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Phyllis T. Sizemore
A Study of Tennyson's Use of Light Imagery in Idylls of the King, Colette G. Tennant
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
THE INFLUENCE AND EFFECT OF THE RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE ANTI-HERO IN THE MODERN SOUTHERN NOVEL, Karen L. Foster
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
"DID I GUESS AT THAT PAUL KNEW?" THE INFLUENCE OF PAULINE THEOLOGY ON ROBERT BROWNING, Beverly H. Laine
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
THE DUALITIES OF NATURES: CHANGES IN THE SACRED LITERATURE OF THE CHEROKEE, Pettis Bowling
THE WORKS OF ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS: A STUDY IN AESTHETICS, Shirley Carson Burger
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Herman Melville Reconsidered, Vivian Whitted
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Imagery in the Novels of Charles Williams, Lynda L. Van Horn
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
An Interpretation of the Essence of Oedipus in Myth and Drama, Mary Katherine Palmore
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
RICHMOND RENASCENCE: THE VIRGINIA WRITERS' CLUB OF THE 1920'S, Betty Farley
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
"George Eliot's Views on Education", Christine M. Clark
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
WALLACE GOULD: A CRITICAL STUDY, Pollyanna Martin Foard
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
THE CONCEPT OF THE RENAISSANCE IN MODERN HISTORICAL FICTION, Elizabeth A. Stone
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
My Work in the Honors Course, Grace O. Burton
