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Read PhD Recipients, 1960s
Addresses are included here only by permission
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Name | Dissertation title and adviser |
|---|---|
| Aarsleff, Hans C.
1960 |
"The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860." Adviser - Clark |
| Alexander, Edward
1963 |
"Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill." Adviser - Levenson |
| Anderson, Howard 1964 |
"Tristam Shandy: A History of the Human Mind." Advisers - Monk and Montgomery |
| Baker, Susan 1966 |
"The Crowned Knot of Fire: A Study of the Influence of Medieval Symbolism of Modern Poetry." Adviser - Tate |
| Barker, Nicholas 1966 |
"John Aubrey’s Brief Lives: A Strange Rare Way of Conserving a Corps." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Bird, Roger 1969 |
"Dryden’s Medieval Translations." Adviser - Monk |
| Blosterli, Margaret 1967 |
"Bedford Park: A Practical Experiment in Aesthetics." Adviser - Stange |
| Boersch.
Alfred 1963 |
"The Sense of Beauty, the Idea of Beauty, and The Beauty of Nature, Theories of Beauty in England, 1700-1760." Adviser - Monk |
| Bredeson, Robert 1963 |
"Mark Twain’s Landscapes: A Study in Changing Literary Conventions." Advisers - Bowron & Levenson |
| Breslin, James E 1964 |
"The Poetry of Celebrating: William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman." Adviser - Levenson |
| Brill, Leonard 1968 |
"Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Atlantic Monthly." Adviser - Foster |
| Brogunier, Joseph 1969 |
"The Jefferson Urn: Faulkner’s Literary Sources and Influences." Adviser - G.T. Wright |
| Brown, Carole 1965 |
"The Literary Career of Parson Yorick: A Study of Laurence Stern’s The Sermons of Mr. Yorick and A Sentimental Journey." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Browne, Thomas 1961 |
"Thomas Nashe and the Traditions of Plain-Speaking." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Carpenter, William 1967 |
"W.B. Yeats’s Literary Use of the Renaissance." Adviser - Unger |
| Cody, Richard 1961 |
"The Pastoral Element in Shakespeare’s Early Comedies." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Coles, William 1967 |
"Novelist of Style: A Critical Reading of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock." Adviser - Stange |
| Collins, Arthur 1964 |
"Images of the Hero: Meredith and his Biographers, 1901-1959." Adviser - Stange |
| Concannon, Sr. Jeanne 1968 |
"The Poetry and Fiction of James Agee: A Critical Analysis." Advisers - Youngblood & Levenson |
| Connors, Joseph 1964 |
"The Victorian Reappraisal of the 18th Century." Adviser - Monk |
| Coughlan, Sr. Jeremy 1967 |
"The Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic and the Poetry of Christian Rossetti, William Morris, and William Butler Yeats." Adviser - Stange |
| Cummins, Roger 1967 |
"The Second Eden: Charles Lane and American Transcendentalism." Adviser - Foster |
| Das
Gupta, Pranabendu 1965 |
"The ‘Subjective Tradition: A Comparative Analysis of the Dramatic Motives in the Plays of W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Daves, Charles W 1965 |
"An Annotated Edition of the Characters of Samuel Butler (1612-1680) with Textual, Critical, and Historical Introduction." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Dille, Roland 1962 |
"David Garnett and the Bloomsbury Group." Adviser - Unger |
| Donovan, Richard A 1968 donovan@thenationalcenter.org |
"Shakespeare and the Game
of Evil: A Study of Role Playing among his Villains." Adviser - Hurrell. Professor of English and Director, The National Center for Educational Alliances, Bronx Community College, City University of New York |
| Dunn, John J 1965 |
"Nature and Love Imagery in the Poetry of Coventry Patmore." Adviser - Stange |
| Ellingston, Denna 1964 |
"The Atreidae: A study of the Reinterpretation of the Mythos by Racine, Goethe, Hoffmanstal, and Giraudoux." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Erickson, James P 1961 |
"The Novels of Eliza Haywood." Adviser - Steinman |
| Ervin, Jean 1969 |
"Pope among the Victorians." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Eschliman, Herbert 1960 |
"Check in the English Short Story." Adviser - O’Connor |
| Fehner, Richard 1961 |
"Izaak Walton’s Life of Sir Henry Wotton, 1651, 1654, 1672, 1675: A Study of Sources, Revisions, and Chronology." Adviser - Unger |
| Fishkin, Abram 1964 |
"Eugene O’Neill: The Study of a Developing Creed through the Medium of Drama." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Flint, Roland 1968 |
"Many Arrivals Make us Live: A Study of the Early Poetics of Theodore Roethke (1941-1953)." Adviser - Foster |
| Fort, Keith 1964 |
"Beyond Despair: A Comparative Study of Four Novels." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Foulke, Robert 1961 |
"Conrad’s Sea World: The Voyage Fiction and the British Merchant Service, 1875-1895." Adviser - Levenson |
| Frank, Lawrence 1968 |
"The Enigmatic Hero: Atonement and the Urban Man in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens." Adviser - Stange |
| Frank, Robert J. 1969 |
"The Balanced Art of Charles Lamb: A Study of The Essays of Elia." Adviser - Scoggins |
| Fraser, John 1961 |
"George Strurt ('George Bourne') and Rural Laboring Life." Adviser - O’Connor |
| Freeman, James A. 1968 |
"The Complexity of Satan in Paradise Lost." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Gibson, William 1964 |
"A Preface to the Study of the Relations of Literature and Architecture, 1650-1750." Adviser - Monk |
| Gollin, Rita K. 1961 gollin@aol.com |
"Dream and Reverie in
the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne." Adviser - Foster. Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, SUNY Geneseo |
| Gurtoff, Stanley 1965 |
"The Impact of D.H. Lawrence on his Contemporaries." Adviser - Unger |
| Hansen, David 1966 |
"English Criticism of Prose Style, 1698-1752." Adviser - Monk |
| Hart, Nathaniel 1968 |
"The Nature of the Grotesque in Robert Browning’s Poems." Adviser - Stange |
| Hartley, Jess 1963 |
"A Study of the Imagery in Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queene." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Hirsch, Leota 1967 |
"The Literary Milieu in the 17th Century South." Adviser - Levenson |
| Huber, Wayne 1964 |
"Convention and Innovation in the Satirical Treatment of Women by the Major Satirists of the Early 18th Century." Adviser - Monk |
| Hussain, Yusuf 1965 |
"Edith Sitwell in the Symbolist Tradition." Adviser - Tate |
| Johnson, Alan 1967 |
"The Concept of the Italian Renaissance in Early Victorian Literature (1836-1860)." Adviser - Stange |
| Jones, David E. 1963 |
"Shakespeare’s Apprenticeship in Comedy." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Joseph, Gerhard 1966 gerhard.joseph@gte.net |
"Tennysonian Love: A Strange
Diagonal." Adviser - Stange. English Department, Lehman College and Graduate Center, City University of New York |
| Keller, Karl 1964 |
"The Metaphysical Strain in 19th Century American Poetry." Adviser - Foster |
| Kennedy, James 1961 |
"Literary Convention and the Realistic Novels of Arnold Bennett." Adviser - O’Connor |
| Khan, Iftikhar 1966 |
"The Verse Satire of the Anti-Jacobin." Adviser - Scoggins |
| Klein, Yvonne Mathews 1969 ymklein@total.net |
"The Politics of the American
Military Novel." Adviser - Turpie. Professor (retired), Dawson College, Montreal |
| Kotzin, Michael 1968 |
"Dickens and the Fairy Tale." Adviser - Stange |
| Kurak, Alex 1963 |
"Imitation, Burlesque Poetry, and Parody: A Study of some Augustan Critical Distinctions." Adviser - Monk |
| Kverness, David 1967 |
"A Critical Study of Fanny Burney." Adviser - Monk |
| Lee, Robert F 1962 |
"Conrad’s Colonialism." Adviser - Tate |
| Livingston, Ray 1965 |
"Ananda K. Coomarawamy’s Theory of Literature." Adviser - O’Connor |
| MacInnes, Margaret 1964 |
"Color Imagery in the Landscapes of The Faerie Queene: An Aspect of the Renaissance Visual Imagination." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Magnuson, Paul 1969 pm1@nyu.edu |
"The Problem of Personal
Identity and Guilt in Coleridge’s Poetry." Adviser - Scoggins. Professor of English, New York University |
| Manno, Fort Philip 1968 |
"The Anti-Hero and the Anti-Heroic Mode." Adviser - Stange |
| Mays, Milton 1965 |
"Uptown and Downtown in Henry James’s America: Sexuality in the Business-Society." Adviser - Bowron |
| McCabe, John D 1968 |
"The Comic and Poetry of Chaucer: Congruence of 'Sentence' and 'Solas'." Adviser - Clark |
| McCabe, Lynn R 1968 |
"An Edition and Translation of a 10th Century Anglo-Saxon Homily, Vercelli X (Codes CXVII)." Adviser - Clark |
| McGinnis, Patrick 1966 |
"A Critical Edition of Sir Thomas Urquart’s Account of the Admirable Crichton, with Introduction and Notes." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Meinke, James 1965 |
"The Writings of Howard Nemerov." Advisers - Foster and Youngblood |
| Mendoza, Helen 1966 |
"The Past in Ellen Glasgow." Adviser - Turpie |
| Mitchell, Mary 1969 |
"Joseph Conrad and the 19th Century Aesthetic Tradition." Adviser - Unger |
| Molitor, Helen 1967 |
"Traditional Logic and Rhetoric in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub and Later Works." Adviser - Monk |
| Moore, Stephen 1963 |
"Variations on a Theme: The Poetry and Criticism of John Peale Bishop." Adviser not given |
| Morris, David 1968 Dbmkirk@aol.com |
"The Religious Sublime:
Judeo-Christian Tradition in 18th Century English Poetry and
Criticism." Adviser - Monk. Professor, University of Virginia |
| Mueller, Roger 1968 |
"The Orient in American Transcendental Periodicals (1835-1886)." Adviser - Plumstead |
| Mulryan, John 1969 |
"Natalis Comes’ Mythologiae: Its Place in the Renaissance Mythological Tradition and its Impact upon English Renaissance Literature." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Omans, Glen 1963 |
"Medieval French Poetic Forms in Victorian Poetry." Advisers - Montgomery & Stagne |
| Owen, Trevor 1966 |
"Julius Caesar in English Literature from Chaucer through the Renaissance." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Pati, Prafulla 1963 |
"Jane Austen: Her Relationship to the Romantic and the Realistic Traditions of English Fiction." Adviser - Steinmann |
| Patnode, Jack 1968 |
"English and American Literary Relations in the 1890s: The Cosmopolitan Impressions." Adviser - Levenson |
| Peterson, Clell 1962 |
"Romance and Realism in the Waverley Novels." Adviser not given |
| Peterson, Leland 1962 |
"The Satiric Norm of Jonathan Swift." Adviser - Monk |
| Peterson, Richard 1963 |
"The Roman Image in English Literature from 1660 to 1700." Adviser - Monk |
| Plouude, Ferdinand 1968 |
"Time Present and Time Past: Autobiography as a Narrative of Duration." Adviser - Stange |
| Plunkett, James 1969 |
"The Quest for a Father-God in the Fiction of Thomas Wolfe." Adviser - Bowron |
| Poteet, Lewis 1968 |
"Romantic Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde’s Prose." Adviser - Stange |
| Rausch, Sr. M. Sheila 1968 |
"Mary Russell Mitford and Regional Realism." Adviser - Stange |
| Riley, Robert 1966 |
"William Barberton as Critic and Editor of Pope." Adviser - Monk |
| Roberts, Edgar 1960 |
"The Ballad Operas of Henry Fielding, 1730-1732: A Critical Edition." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Rogers, Donnita 1968 |
"Horace Walpole, Amateur Architect and Art Historian." Adviser - Monk |
| Rosenmeier, Henrik 1968 |
"Tobias Smollett: A Study in Popular Taste at Mid-century." Adviser - Monk |
| Schemer.
William 1967 |
"The Sources of Augustan Satire: Polemic and Poetry." Adviser - Monk |
| Schneider, Mary Willis 1964 |
"The Classical Poetry of Matthew Arnold." Adviser - Stange |
| Schwegel, Douglas 1960 |
"The Use of American Motifs by British Poets of the Romantic Period." Adviser - Stange |
| Shea, Francis 1961 |
"The Text of Our Mutual Friend: A Study of the Variations between the Copy Text and the First Printed Edition." Adviser - Stange |
| Shea, John 1967 |
"Studies in the Verse Fable from LaFontaine to Gay." Adviser - Monk |
| Simson, George 1963 |
"Lytton Strachey’s Use of his Sources in Eminent Victorians." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Sitter, John 1969 jsitter@nd.edu |
"The Poetry of Pope’s Dunciad." Adviser - Monk. Professor of English, Notre Dame University |
| Sloman, Judith 1968 |
"The Structure of Dryden’s Fables." Adviser - Monk |
| Smith, Denzell 1965 |
"The Tragedy of Cleopatra Queene of Aegypt by Thomas May (Written ca. 1626; First Edition 1639) A Critical Edition." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Sorensen, Gerald 1966 |
"A Critical Edition of W. M. Thackeray’s The Virginians." Adviser - Stange |
| Stambaugh, Sara 1969 |
"Towards the Short Story: British Short Fiction of the 1890s." Adviser - Stange |
| Stephenson, William 1969 |
"The Meditative Poetry of Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens." Adviser - Scoggins |
| Stitzel, Judith 1968 |
"Comedy and the Serious Moralist: The Concept of Good Nature in the Novels of Henry Fielding." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Toth, Susan 1969 |
"More than Local Color: A Reappraisal of Rose Terry Cooke, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Alice Brown." Adviser - Foster |
| Van
Cromphout, Gustaaf 1966 gustavan@niu.edu |
"Emerson’s Eroica:
A Study of his Idea of Greatness." Adviser- Foster. Professor of English, Northern Illinois University |
| Velz, John W 1963 |
"Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Reference Guide to Published Commentary in English, 1660-1960." Adviser - H. Brown |
| Vincent, Mary 1967 |
"Lafcadio Hearn and Late Romanticism." Adviser - Unger |
| Voight, Milton 1960 |
"Swift and the 20th Century: The Man and the Major Satires." Adviser- Monk |
| Weber, Burton 1965 |
"The Construction of Paradise Lost." Adviser - Unger |
| Weber, Robert 1964 |
"A Comparative Study of Regional Terms Common to the Twin Cities and the Eastern United States." Adviser - Allen |
| Wedge, George 1967 |
"Alexander Neckam’s De Rerum: A Study Together with Representative Passages in Translation." Adviser - Clark |
| Winsted, Susan 1966 |
"The Crowned Know of Fire: A Study of the Influence of Medieval Symbolism of Modern Poetry." Adviser - Tate |
Jigna Desai (PhD 1999), associate professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota
