The access to the collection of English Theses is restricted to RWU English faculty members for curriculum purposes and is not open to the public. Please get in touch with the English Department to obtain a password for viewing or downloading a thesis.
Submissions from 2018
Lead Us Not Into Temptation and Deliver Us From Patriarchy : Biblical Appropriations of the Female Voice, Gabrielle Barnes
Hermione, a Modern-day Athena: Friendships in Harry Potter and Homer’s Epics, Vanessa Dos Anjos
'There Could Be No Doubt of His Sex,’ Gender Fluidity in Virginia Woolf s Orlando and Other Works, Jenna Noell
“Power in a Woman’s Wit and Will“: Unmasking Feminism in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask, Samantha Painter
Sisterhood of the Traveling Fan: The Portrayal of Intimacy in Lisa See’s Snow Mower and the Secret Fan, Samantha Rocca
An Evolutionary Redefinition of the Education of Women: Jane Eyre and Hermione Granger and the Influence of the Female Voice, Emily Stoeppel
Submissions from 2017
Generation Gap in 1960s American Literature: Revolutionary Road & Sticks and Bones, Ryan Bonacum
“An Exploration in Victorian Ideologies in 1950s and 1960s American literature“, Sarah Capodagli
The Rainbow Effect: How the Fight for Civil Rights Birthed a 1960's Literary Spectrum, Max Dittmar
The Dramatization of Betty Friedan’s Idea of the Feminine Mystique in Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Lauren Ferreira
June Cleaver Who?: The Deterioration ofDomesticity in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road and Sylvia Plath’s 7he Bell Jar, Julia Junker
Rubbing the Flies Out of Our Eyes: Grasping the Elusive Postmodern War Narrative, Rebecca Proulx
The Hopeless Emptiness: Women’s Mental Health Care in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road., Margaret Rawlings
An Absence of Sisterhood: Feminism Without Movement and Esther Greenwood’s Descent Into Despair in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Jacquelyn Voghel
Paved Paradise and Pushed to Depression? The Role of Nature upon Anxiety and Depression in The Bell Jar, Dorothy Wilkinson
Submissions from 2016
“First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage” … Or Not?: Revising Romantic Pre-Conceptions in Sense & Sensibility, Catherine Bass
Feminist Elements in the Pride and Prejudice I What Film Reveals in Text, Bernadette Benman
It’s NOT “only Anne”: Social Criticism in Jane Austen's Persuasion, Tori Bodozian
Fitting the “Big Bow-wow Strain” onto “Two Inches Wide of Ivory”: Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott’s Repurposing of the Gothic Novel, Caroline Conroy
What's Money Got to Do With It? Jane Austen and Marriage Equality in Pride and Prejudice, Ashlyn Dowd
Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey’s Realistic Heroine, Ali Gowrie
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Brontë’s Autobiographical Novel, Alanna Hammond
Swords as Sharp as your Wits: Narrative Techniques and Regency Horror in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Chris McAneny
Submissions from 2015
How Chasing Dreams, Society’s Standards, and Family Members Influence a Character’s Identity in 1950s American Literature, Ben Anderson
The Difference Between Two Mothers in 1950s American Drama: A Religious God and a False God, Angelica Lee Ariola
Changing the Family Dynamic; The Loss of a Child in The Catcher in the Rye and Long Day’s Journey into Night, Brooke Bishop
“You’re All Just a Bunch of Phonies:” Uncovering the Mask of Conformity in The Crucible, The Cather in the Rye, and Fahrenheit 451., Antonia Carpenter
Escaping Disillusionment: The Tyrones’ and Guy Montag’s Struggle for Diversion through “Illicit“ Activities, Kaylynn Constantine
From Puritan Ministers to Futuristic Firemen: Alternative Settings as a Critique of 1950s Norms in The Crucible and Fahrenheit 451, Abigail DeVeuve
Brewing Up Feminism in the 1950s: Mary Tyrone’s and Beneatha Younger’s Stirring of the Pot, Eleni Dres
A 1950s Critique of the American Dream Despised, Devastated, and Deferred, Diandra Yvonne Franks
Nature Deficit Disorder in 1950s Literature: Are Holden Caulfield and Guy Montag Suffering from a Lack of “Vitamin N”?, Charlotte Herz
Religious Drama: Seeing Religion for What it Really is Through the Lens of 1950s Drama, Marchand Kevin
Holden Caulfield’s and Sal Paradise’s Relationship Failures due to a Lack of Familial Connection, Connor Lahey
Eugene O’Neill’s lo mg Day’s Journey Into Night: A Milestone in American Religious Skepticism, Margaret Ann McLaughlin
"Exploring the Wreck:" The Poetic Conversation about Domesticity in 1950s America, Christie Mercuri
The Longing for the Natural World in the Literature of the 1950s, Steven Scherer
“Guy Montag and the Characters at Fahrenheit 45 ll Their Desire of the Impossible Escape from Dystopian Society“, Jennifer Stanley
Submissions from 2014
Into the Light: Stylistic Reflections of the Enlightenment in Voltaire’s Candide, Rachel Caruso
Trapped Inside "The Man Box" : The Victorian Med of Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Hardy, Stephanie Coyle
“An Order of Christianity, Hold the Christ”: Thomas Hardy’s “Religious Menu” in Tess of the d’UrberviIIes, Erin R. Giroux
School’s Out For Women: Skills, Schooling, and Successin Daniel Defoe’s MoU Flanders, Alexandra Godino
“The StrumpetTriumphs: Evangelicalism, Mary Magdalene, & Daniel Defoe’s Moll“, Aimee Kaufman
Individualism vs. Communitarianismin Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Stephanie MacLaughlin
“Sancho Panza, Illiterate Voice of Reason: A Study of Irony in Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote“, Matthew Manfredi
From Jail-Bird to Gangsterto Gentlewoman: The Rise of the Female Hero in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Jesse Ramos
