LITR 4232: American Renaissance

Index to Student Papers, spring 2001

Click on the links listed below to view this semester's student analytic / research papers.

Note: Access to these papers is provided so that they may serve as models for future students. Most of the papers are posted "as they came in." Therefore, some editing and format problems may remain.

Allison Amaya, "The Question of Change and Expansion" (Irving and Tennyson)

Charley Bevill, "Freely Adapted: An American Classic Made Popular" (The Scarlet Letter)

Keely Coufal, "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Christian Mother’s Stand"

Will Frith, "A Psychoanalyst's Approach to Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"

Douglas Goforth, (to be added)

Erin Gouner, Interracial Figures of the American Renaissance (Cora from The Last of the Mohicans, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Ann Jacobs)

Joanne Hale, "Journalism: A Cornerstone of American Literature"

Kellie Keener, "Perfect Impossibility" (Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birthmark," and "Rappaccini’s Daughter")

Lacy Lakner, "Moving to Higher Ground" (Douglass and Stowe)

Thomas Parker, "American Gothic: 'Sleepy Hollow,' 'Ligeia,' and 'You Know They Got a Hell of a Band'"

Linda Quarles, "Gender Roles" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Moore Grimké, Angelina Grimké Weld, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth)

Lisa Runnels, "Political Romantics" (Stanton, Emerson, Fuller, King)

Barbara Sharp, "Voices of Consciousness: Defining Self-Awareness in the American Renaissance" (Emerson, Poe, Whitman)

Joni Thrasher, "The 'Savage Grandeur' of Magua, the Byronic Hero" (The Last of the Mohicans)