LITR 4232: American Renaissance

Index to Student Research Projects, spring 2006

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)

Kate Barrack, journal: "With Violence and Madness We Walk Unknown" (comparing Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll)

Amy Breazeale, journal: "The American Transcendentalism Movement"

Susanne Brooks, journal: "It's a Classic" (re Declaration of Independence)

Neelam Damani, essay: "The Visionary or the Mundane?"

Heidi Gerke, essay: "The Gothic and the Sublime of Edgar Allan Poe"

Amanda Hanne, essay: "Gender in Slave Narratives"

Sarah Hardwick, essay: "Edgar Allan Poe: Death Becomes Him"

Cana Hauerland, essay: "The Poetry and Life of Dickinson"

Melissa Jones, journal: "The Gothic over Time"

Becky Mobley, journal: "Poe's Spirit: the Sublime in Poe's Tales"

Joe Myers, essay: "The Last of the Mohicans and the Indomitable Power of the Frontier"

Julie O'Gea, journal:" The Religious Sublime: An Encounter of Epic Emotions"

Tallia Ortiz, essay: "Links between Cooper and Irving"

Kyle Phillips, essay: "Strange Times"

Miriam Rodriguez, essay: "Correspondence in Literature"

Elena Trevino, essay: "The Gothic and Sublime Centuries"

Bill Wolfe, essay: "Eastern Influence in American Transcendentalism"