The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations 1970-1979
1970
Calvin Israel, Ph.D. 1970
Dissertation: American Puritan Literary Theory: 1620-1660
Dissertation Committee: Robert Wiggins (dir), Brom Weber, Hans Galinsky
Reid Norris Maynard, Ph.D. 1970
Dissertation: The Writer and Experience: Ernest Hemingway's Views on the Craft of Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Peter Hays
Elinore Hughes Partridge, Ph.D. 1970
Dissertation: Emerson: A Stylistic Analysis of His Prose
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Robert Wiggins, Brom Weber
Elaine Cottler Showalter, Ph.D. 1970
Dissertation: Double Standard: Criticism of Women Writers in England, 1845-1880
Dissertation Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Robert Wiggins, Elliot Gilbert
1971
Thomas Joseph Cousineau, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Imagination Dead Imagine: A Commentary on the Novels of Samuel Beckett
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, Marshall Lindsay
Burton Norval Hatlen, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: The Snake in the Garden: Milton's Comus as Pastoral
Dissertation Committee: Linda Van Norden (dir), Lindsay Mann, Thomas Hanzo
Richard Vincent Leahy, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: The Divine Plan for Salvation in the Medieval Saints' Legends
Disseration Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Wayne Harsh, Valerie Tumins
Judson Taylor Monroe , Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Tragedy in the Novels of the Reverend Charles Robert Maturin
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Robert Hopkins
Margaret Anne O'Connor, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Willa Cather and the Short Story
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Robert Wiggins, Brom Weber
Jan Richard Piggott, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: The Context of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, Elliot Gilbert
John Joseph Pollock, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Patterns of Motion in the Poetic Imagery of Donne, George Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan
Disseration Committee: Linda Van Norden (dir), Lindsay Mann, Thomas Hanzo
Mary Frances Rey Weddle, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Garden and the Wilderness: Traditional Moral Landscape in Hawthorne's Fiction
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Michael Hoffman, Brom Weber
Benjamin Goddman Whitten, Jr., Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Jane Austen's "Comedy of Feeling": A Critical Analysis of Persuasion
Disseration Committee: Gwedolyn Needham (dir), Arthur McGuinness, Diane Johnson Murray
1972
Melvin Ralph Bertolozzi, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: Joseph Addison: Mr. Spectator and the Man of Taste
Disseration Committee: Gwedolyn Needham (dir), Joseph Baird, James Woodress
John Roger Holdstock, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: The Origins of Subversive Literature in English
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Silvia (dir), Linda Van Norden
James Joseph Lynch, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: The Mediating Figure in Shakespeare
Disseration Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Linda Van Norden, Peter Hays
James Elliott Marlow, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: A Rhetorical and Thematic Analysis of Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Elizabeth Homann
Max Henry Massey, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: Charles Stuart Calverley, Poet and Parodist
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson Murray (dir), William Baker, Robert Wiggins
David Roy Overton, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: Structure and Theme in the Plays of John Whiting
Disseration Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Peter Hays, Alan Stambusky
John Vincent Regan, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: The Christian Structure of Pope's Dunciad
Disseration Committee: Arthur McGuinness (dir), Gwendolyn Needham, Robert Hopkins
Norman Stanley Roby, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: The Secret Self of George Meredith: A Study of His Heroes
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson Murray (dir), William Baker, Michael Hoffman
Kevin Padriac Roddy, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: "Who is This King of Glory?": The Epic Element in English Cycle Drama
Disseration Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Daniel Silvia, Robert Sarlos
Stewart Speakman, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: Wit, Humor, and Sensibility in Evelina, Belinda and Northanger Abbey
Disseration Committee: Gwedolyn Needham (dir), Robert Hopkins
1973
Glenn J. Broadhead, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: The Rhetoric of Conversation: Essays on Eighteenth-Century English Criticism of "Familiar Discourse"
Disseration Committee: Robert Hopkins (dir), Arthur McGuinness, Richard Schwab
Janice Zita Grover, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Luxury and Leisure in Early Nineteenth Century America: Saratoga Springs and the Rise of the Resort
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Wilson Smith, David Wilson
Kathleen Hulley, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Disintegration as Symbol of Community: A Study of The Rainbow, Women in Love, Light in August, Prisoner of Grace, Except the Lord, Not Honor More, and Herzog
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, Elliot Gilbert
George William Ludington, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Tristram Shandy's Conversations with his Readers
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Thomas Hanzo
James Robert Payne, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Style and Meaning in American Autobiography: William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Thomas Hanzo, Robert Wiggins Woodress
Carole Schauls Stahlkopf, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Rhetoric and Comic Technique in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals and The School for Scandal
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Robert Fahrner, Elizabeth Homann
Alfred Christopher Wagstaff, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Make It New: A Study of the American Aspects of Ezra Pound's Cantos
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Karl Shapiro
1974
Thomas Jeffrey Evans, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: Realism in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), James Woodress, Michael Hoffman
Hugh Brian Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: Symbolic Action in the 1655 Edition of Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Arthur Amos Jr., Winfried Schleiner
Charles Terry Kollerer, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: The Valved Voice: A Stylistic Analysis of Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass
Disseration Committee: James Woodress (dir), Wayne Harsh, Michael Hoffman
Neal David Kreitzer, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: The Quest for Identity in the Novels of Bernard Malamud
Disseration Committee: Karl Shapiro (dir), Robert Hopkins, Thomas Hanzo
Stephen Edward Peithman, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: The Pervasive "I": Narrative Point of View in Poe's Tales
Dissertation Committee: Robert Wiggins (dir), David Johnson, James Woodress
Nelson Christian Sager, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: The Crisis of Identity in the Anglo-Indian Fiction of Rudyard Kipling
Disseration Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson Murray, Michael Hoffman
Gerda Ree Segall Seaman, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: The Equivocal Satire of Thomas Nashe
Disseration Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Arthur Amos Jr., Joan C. Carr
Michael Wayne Vella, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: Inner Vision and Society in the American Novel
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Peter Hays, David Wilson
Thomas Anthony Weaver, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: Worlds Enough and Time: A Study of the Novels of John Hawkes
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, Brom Weber
1975
Eugene Alfred Adam, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: A Structural Study of the Major Novels of John Cooper Powys
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Peter Hays, Michael Hoffman
Daniel Harry Bultman, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: The Evolution of the Epic Novel in America
Dissertation Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Michael Hoffman, David Robertson
Diane Levine Cousineau, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: Henry James and Virginia Woolf: A Comparative Study
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), William Baker, Elliot Gilbert
Dorothy Gilbert, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: The Rude Sweetness: A Study of Chaucer's Prosody and of Its Examiners
Disseration Committee: Daniel Silvia (dir),Thomas Hanzo
Sharon Ann Locy, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: Of Two Minds: Arthur Symons and the Symbolist Dilemma
Dissertation Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson Murray, Thomas Hanzo
Don W. Sieker, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: Henry Fielding as Playwright: A Study of Relationships between Comic Drama and Moral Purpose
Disseration Committee: Robert Hopkins (dir), Joan Carr, Robert Fahrner
1976
Christina Albasio, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: Mark Twain: The Final Phase
Disseration Committee: James Woodress (dir), Everett Carter, Robert Wiggins
Frank E. Buske, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: The Wilderness, the Frontier and the Literature of Alaska to 1914: John Muir, Jack London and Rex Beach
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), James Woodress, Everett Carter
Richard Edward Compean, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: Swift and The Lucianic Tradition
Disseration Committee: Robert Hopkins (dir), Peter Hays, Arthur McGuinness
Steven Scott Curry, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: The Literature of Loss: A Study of Nineteenth-Century English and American Fiction
Disseration Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Thomas Hanzo
Jean Johnson Gandesbery, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: Versions of the Mother in the Novels of Jane Austen and George Eliot
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson Murray (dir), Robert Hopkins, Peter Hays
Sarah Emily Newton, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: An Ornament to her Sex: Rhetorics of Persuasion in Early American Conduct Literature for Women and the Eighteenth-Century American Seduction Novel
Disseration Committee: David Wilson (dir), James Woodress, Robert Hopkins
Marilyn Merritt Schwartz, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: From Beat to Beatific: Religious Ideas in the Writings of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Michael Hoffman, Karl Shapiro
Harry B. Wilson, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: Psychological Projection in Six Romantic Poems, English and American
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), David Robertson, James Woodress
1977
William David Haggerty, Jr., Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Entangled Absalom: A Critical Study of Wyndham Lewis as Modernist and Satirist
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Hopkins, Michael Hoffman
John Harger Hillis, Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Conrad's Exoticism
Dissertation Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson Murray, Michael Hoffman
Carlton Thomas Holte, Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Taming the Rock: Myth, Model, and Metaphor in the Novels of Anthony Burgess
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Jack Hicks, Michael Hoffman
Ronald Levitt Lanyi, Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Comic Book Creativity as Displaced Aggression
Disseration Committee: William Baker (dir), Arthur Amos Jr., David Wilson
1978
Ursula Margot Crabtree, Jr., Ph.D. 1978
Dissertation: Facing the Bogeyman: A Comparative Study of the Motif of the Double in the Novels of Saul Bellow and Gunter Grass
Disseration Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Michael Hoffman, Thomas Hanzo
Paul Charles Privateer, Ph.D. 1978
Dissertation: The Romantic Cogito: Poetic Identity in Blake and Wordsworth
Dissertation Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Robert Hopkins, Michael Hoffman
1979
Kirk Hans Beetz, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume One
Disseration Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Robert Hopkins, Diane Johnson Murray
Robert Con Davis, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: Revenge Against Time: The Father in Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), James Woodress, Elliot Gilbert
Kitty Chen Dean, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: "Maritalis affectus": Attitudes towards Marriage in English and French Medieval Literature
Disseration Committee: Daniel Silvia (dir), James Spamer, Gerald Aeruiad
Steven Swann Jones, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: The Construction of the Folktale
Disseration Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Alan Dundes, David Robertson, Daniel Crowley
Patrick James O'Donnell, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: The Fragile Web: Interpretation as Subject in Contemporary Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, Jack Hicks
Scott Allan Simmon, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: The Ulysses Tradition: Open and Closed Form in the Novels of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Thoman Pynchon
Disseration Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Peter Hays, Jack Hicks
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