American Literature: Romanticism research assignment Student Research Submissions 2013

Research Essays

Carrie C. Hatfield, Errands into the Wilderness: “The Bear,” and its Two-Fold Jeremiad

Munira Omari, Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell Tale Heart and The Premature Burial

Rachel Risinger, Reflections on “Ligeia”: The Unquiet Mind of Edgar Allan Poe

Jennifer Tapp, A Daisy by Any Other Name . . .

Kristine Vermillion, The American Wilderness Journey

Hannah Wells, The Self-Executioner: Poe and the Fantastic

Joseph Bernard, The Poe Passport

Norbert Hill, Enhanced Elements of the Romantic Tragic Mulatto in the Realist Narrative

Jacob McCleese, Dichotomous Jazz Age

Jeanette Smith, The Fragile Sanctuary: My Journey to Understand Elizabeth Bishop

Meryl Bazaman, Abstract / Proposal; Paper: "Emerson's Internal Revolution"; Commentary

Sarah McCall DeLaRosa
1st post: Politics and tricking the reader in Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson"
2nd post: A brief study of early Dutch American literature and culture

Beverly Li
1st post: Emerson's Greek Connection
2nd post: Emerson's Swedenborgian Connection

Matt Martin
1st post: Spiritual Understanding, Beauty, and the Hudson River
2nd post: Beyond the Hudson: Popularity and Changes of Landscape Art

Sheila Morris
1st post: What is the Feminine Gothic and Why Should I Care?
2nd post: Where is the American Feminine Gothic writer today, what is she doing, and how is she doing it?