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Submissions from 2004
"Pretend you are drowining": Esther Greenwood's Journey into Depression in The Bell Jar, Erin Hughes
The American Family in the Literature of the 1960s, Paul Johnson II
The World of Eudora Welty's Wasteland, Sarah Lowry
"I remembered that I had never cried for my father's death": Unrequited Grief in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Paige McKinney
"My friends call me Yo-Yo": Yossarian's Search for Morality in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Jason Pedicone
"There is a world of women beyond Janice." The Quest for the Ideal Housewife in John Updike's Rabbit, Run., Jennifer Pond
"'The bell jar hung, suspended': Destructive Depression Therapies in The Bell Jar", Gaelin Ristino
"I believe in God again": Religious Affirmation in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kathryn Roddy
"Yossarian? What the hell kind of name is Yossarian?" Names and Identity in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Alexis Rustigian
"Patched, retreaded and approved for the road": Esther Greenwood's Ultimate Cure in The Bell Jar, Meagan Sage
The Masculine Mystique: Harry's "Problem with No Name" in John Updike's Rabbit, Run, Katie Tumiel
"To the person in the bell jar . . . The world itself is the bad dream": Sylvia Plath's Critique of the Therapies in The Bell Jar, Melanie Wolfert
"The world itself is the bad dream": Esther Greenwood's Suffocation Beneath the 1950s Bell Jar, Maura Wolk
Submissions from 2003
“Hank’s Failed Techno-Utopia”: The Detrimental Effects of 19th Century Technology and Politics in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Joshua Brennan
“Bois-Guilbert, the Templar Knight: Villain or Modern Anti-Hero of Ivanhoe”, Jon Elwell
The Inevitable Damnation of Womanhood A Feminist Analysis of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, Marybeth Gordon
Sexy Versus Sweet: Portrayals of Elaine and Vivien in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “ The Idylls of the King“, Emily Jamba
Robin Hood: The True Hero of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Jessica Lewis
FalIIng Short ot the Royal ldeal: SIr Walter Scott’s Portrayal of Once and Future Kings in Ivanhoe, Melissa Mondor
From Paige to Page: The Influence of the Failare of the Paige Typeset Machine in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court, Vincent Picone
Wounding the Past: Twain’s Attack on Medievalism and Antebellum Society in Connecticut Yankee, Rachel Selby
Submissions from 2002
From Horses to Bicycles: A Study of Twain’s View of Technology in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Ariana Carlone
“Merlin and Vivien“: The Incapacitating Consequences of Lustful Sex in the Nineteenth Century, Lauren S. Ferri
“The Man Behind The Women”: The Role and Evolution of Women in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Dena V. Greenhut
“Fair and Foul? The Nature of Justice and Tennyson’s Vixen Vivien”, Rose Incampo
Tennyson’s “Medieval“ Moral Voice within Idylls of The King, Catherine E. Leopold
“Rebecca and Isaac: Scott’s View of Medieval Jews”, Elizabeth A. Rapoza
Mark Twain’s Religious Commentary In The Medieval Setting of A Conn%ticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Jane Reilley
The Past is Now and the Now is Past: A Postmodern Analysis of Cultural Dominance in Ivanhoe and The Fair Maid of Perth, Rebecca Steele
Bullet Holes Through the Armor of Medievalism: Mark TwainFs Use of Black Humor in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Vanessa Toro
The Revolutionary and the Reformist: Romantic Visions of Robin Hood in Keats and Scott, Rebecca Wechsler
Submissions from 1999
Images of Fire and Ice/Water in Jane Eyre, Amy Berardinelli
Anne Bronete's Quest: Woman as an Idivisual in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Melissa Cirillo
Re-evaluating Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Fiction as Autobiography, Lynne Desrosiers
The Many Faces of Eve: Fallen Women in the 19th--Century British Novel, Mandy Dunn
Literary Echoes Across the Pond: Gender Discrimination in Colonial America and Nineteenth Century Britain, Dolores Longo
"Strange study for a child, to learn the road to a hard parent's heart': The Father-Daughter Relationship In Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son, Sydney Moulaison
From Orphan to Mother: Lessons of Love in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Shannon Rogers
Submissions from 1998
Imprisonment and Madness in Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love Chase and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Rachel Brady
The Cruelty of the Mental Heath Profession in the 19501s and The Bell Jar, Elizabeth Coxon
The Demise of Esther Greenwood: A Naturalistic Tragedy in The Bell Jar, Britta Delaney
The Moral Journey Through the Homes of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Elizabeth Jacobson
A Crash in Women's Liberation Fear of Flying: A Feminist Defeat, Charity Latham
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Marxist Critique, Monica Mauer
Striving to Survive: Esther Greenwood’s Attempt in The Bell Jar, Staci Sherman
The Two Faces of Louisa May Alcott: The Foil Characters in Alcott's Romantic Thrillers, Laura Zylinski
Submissions from 1997
Esther’s War: Servitude or Suicide, T.R. Blackburn
Milo Minderbinder in Economic Paradise: Moral Criticism in Joseph Heller 's Catch–22, Joseph Comeau
