Access to the collection of English theses from 2023 and earlier is restricted to RWU English faculty members for curriculum-related purposes and is not available to the public. To view or download a thesis, please contact the English Department to obtain a password.
Submissions from 1999
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
A Change of World takes a Wild Patience Adrienne Rich: Dismantling History and Recreating Experience, Heather Doyle
The Demise of Christianity in the Literature of the 1960s, Derek Januario
The Bell Jar: An Attack on the Pathetic Profession of the 1950s, Matthew P. Johnson
Belief in Religion, Rejection of the System: The Christian Ideals Rooted in James Baldwin’s Philosophy and Literature, Michael McGowan
Religion Fails, Sex Fulfills: Rabbit’s Quest for Significance in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, Thomas J. Reis
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Esther Greenwood/s Struggle Against a Patriarchal System, David S. Stead
Submissions from 1995
Mmm, Delicious Indeed!: The Birth of Consciousness and Sensual Indulgance in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Travis M. Farrell
Nora Helmer and Edna Pontellier : A Time of Self-Transformation, Patrick Gloss
Mrs , Mallard 's Elixir : An Evolution from Lead to Gold in Kate Chopin 's 'The Story of an Hour ', Julianne Greenwood
Bird Imagerya s it Relates to Women in Kate Chopin' s The Awakening, Jennifer K. HarrIman
Flying the Coop : EdnaP ontellier 1s awakeningin to a neww omanu nder the influence of Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, Alex Klenert
Death and Madness: Keys Which Unlock Patriarchal Gates, Colleen F. Lynch
A Natural Evolution : Edna's Discovery of Self in Nature, Brennon G. McKeon
“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit Impediments”, Kathryn Charlotte Roper
A Solitary Soul’: An Analysis of A Woman’s Search for Self, Anne M. Wentworth
Submissions from 1994
To Leave Or Not To Leave Society – That Is The Question! Comparing Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man to Henry Fielding’s Old Man of the Hill, Jessica Amber Barnum
Rage Against War Allen Ginsberg's Anti-War Poetry, Corinne Duffy
The Invisible Past: Ralph Ellison’s Symbols as Keys to the Invisible Man’s Identity, Erika Greatbatch
An American Odyssey: The Figure of the Homeric Wanderer in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Richard Henderson
Man Without Woman: The Narrator's Search for Identity, Dana Melchar
Conformity and Christianity in the Works of Flannery O'Connor, Danielle Piquette
The Underground Man: The Influence of Feodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Elizabeth Purcell
PARELLEL DEVELOPMENTS:Adrienne Rich's politics of flesh and blood, Rachel Rosenzweig
Submissions from 1993
Faulkner's Macbeth, Meredith K. Barr
The Faustian Myth in Absalom, Absalom!, Cody D’Andrea
William Faulkner'S Decaying South : the Ruined Mansion as Symbol, Jenny Freger
Time and Man in Faulkner’s World, Jill Gover
The Biblical Underpinnings of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Don Hannan
The Trickster Hero in African-American Literature: Old and New, Deanne Langley
The American Civil War and the Female Rite of Passage, Debra Lynn Malewicki
Sins of the Fathers: Faulkner and the Great Sin of the South, Nora Mills
Who Was Our President, Abraham Lincoln? The Differences Between the Public and Private Abraham Lincoln, Erica Proto
