LITR 4232: American Renaissance
University of Houston-Clear Lake, spring 2003
Index to Student Research Projects

Below are links to copies of student research projects. These papers are provided to serve as models and as research aids for future students as well as to create an opportunity for present students to share their research with each other. Most of the papers are posted "as they came in." Therefore, some editing and format problems may remain. (Underlines, italics, and indentations are frequent casualties from reformatting)

Robert S. Andresakis, journal: "The Hidden Meaning: A Comparison of Hamlet and 'The Conqueror Worm'"

Lisa Bailey, essay: "Renaissance Women: Harriet Beecher Stowe"

Sara Brito, journal: "Emily Dickinson and Sojourner Truth"

Marie Brookreson, journal: "Slavery Built a Nation"

Sandra Burkhalter, "A Solitary Voice: A Journal on Emily Dickinson"

Doug Carey, journal: "Poe and Dickinson"

Jennifer M. Davis, essay: "Education: A Slave’s Path to Freedom"

Lydia Dennis, essay: "Representation through Literature"

Dawn E. Dobson, essay: "The Significance of Water in Thoreau’s Transcendental Philosophies"

Laurie Eckhart, journal: "American Threads"

Deterrean Gamble, essay: "The Only Song Worth Singing: Walt Whitman and American Exceptionalism"

Claire Garza, essay: "The Slavery Experience"

Corrie Lawrence, journal: "Exploring American Renaissance Literature: Domestic Space and Ideals of the American Romantic Female"

Jody Danielle Newmann, "A Journal Analyzing the Byronic Hero, Those who Closely Resemble the Hero, Byron’s Writing Styles and Literary Criticism"

Simone Rieck, essay: "Nature: The Universal Bond"

Sara Sills, essay: "Writing Techniques of Emily Dickinson"

Kristine Vermillion, essay: "The American Renaissance in Literature and History"

Special contribution from student taking course online:

Valerie Lawrence, "American Renaissance as Independent Study"