LITR 4232: American Renaissance

Index to Student Research Projects, fall 2004

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)

Linsey Allnatt, journal: "Musicality of the American Renaissance: Poe and his Contemporaries"

Jennifer Baker, journal: "Poe's Pain"

Rhonda Denise Bender, journal on literature of American slavery

Melanie Braselton, essay: "Edgar Allan Poe and the Double: I Can’t Seem to Get Away From Myself"

Audra Caldwell, journal: "History and Authors of Slave Narratives"

Natalie Cizmar, journal: "The Emergence of Beauty out of Sensationalism in Whitman's Work"

Juliana Davila, journal: "Exploring Spanish-American Literature"

Daniel Davis, essay: "The Undeniable Thread"

Liz Davis, journal: "Women of the American Renaissance"

Jennifer Horner, journal: "American Transcendentalism: Emerson & Thoreau"

Laura Jones, essay: "Iunctio"

Joseph Leber, journal: "The Power of Romanticism"

Bryan Lestarjette, journal: "I Project Myself—Also I Return: The Emersonian System of Man, Men, and Nature"

Jessica Lightle, essay: "Gothic Contrast"

Sherry Mann, journal: "Exploring the Significance of Slave Narratives"

Bonnie Napoli, journal: "Walt Whitman: Let's Talk about Sex"

Tina Pequeno, essay: "The Dehumanization of Slaves and Slaveholders"

Bryan Peterson, journal: "The Psychological Gothic"

Mary Tinsley, journal: "Edgar Allan Poe: The Original Hopeless Romantic"