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Submissions from 1997
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 1991
Hidden Values, Hidden Morals and Architectural Secrets: An Analysis of Gateshead Hall From Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Sarah Alasso
Lockwood, Nelly Dean and the Ambiguity of a Dual Narration in Wuthering Heights, Alana Fishberg
The Effect of Victorian Patriarchy on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Linda Frederick
Familial Likeness in Pride & Prejudice, Michelle Novak
The Amiable Couple in Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma: Exposing False Illusions about Marrying for Love, Michael Robinson
Austen's Commentary on the Patriarchal Society of Pride and Prejudice as Perceived Through her Character of Elizabeth Bennet, Marsha S. Saylor
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Brontë’s Autobiographical Novel, Deb Westgate