Listed below are links to copies of papers submitted for the course midterm assignment. These papers are provided to serve as models for future students. For readability and general quality, the instructor has lightly edited these papers, and some students made revisions of their own before posting. However, a few editing problems may remain.

Stacey Burleson, "Religion as a Gothic Element in American Romanticism"

Paul Campbell, "Desire, Loss, and Nostalgia in Early American Romantic Literature"

Shelly Childers, "The Price of Progress"

Jane Ftacnik, "Individualism"

Caroline Garner, "The Rebellious Spirit of Romanticism"

Sheshe Giddens, "The Development of The Last of the Mohicans
as a Normative American Romance"

Kimberly Jones, "The Gothic Genre in the Texts of Mary Rowlandson, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper"

Amana LeBlanc, "The Development of 'the Sublime' in American Romanticism"

Lathon Lewis, "Experiencing the 'Other': An Opinion of the Sublime"