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Department of English

PhD Recipients, 1897-1949

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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
Abbeymeyer, Charles
1900
"Old English Poetical Motives Derived from the Doctrine of Sin."
Alexis, Gerhard
1947
"Calvinism and Mysticism in Jonathan Edwards." Adviser - McDowell
Barnard, Ellsworth
1935
"Shelley's Religion." Adviser - Beach
Bjornstad, William
1945
"A Swift Handbook: The Biography (1667-1745) and the Poetry through 1714." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Boddy, Margaret
1935
"The Translations of Virgil into English Verse from Douglas through Dryden. A Study in the Development of Poetic Expression." Adviser - Bush
Bouvier, Arthur
1943
"Studies in the Development of Dramatic Conventions in 16th Century England." Adviser - H. Brown
Briggs, Harold
1942
"The First Life of Keats: An Edition of Lord Houghton's Life and Letters of John Keats." Adviser - Beach
Buckley, Frank
1939
"Trends in American Primitivism." Adviser - McDowell
Cavanna, John
1941
"Dr. Burney's Principles of Music Criticism: Their Background in Western Culture and Their Relationship to Neoclassicism and Romanticism: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Chase, Mary Ellen
1922
"A Comparative Study of Several Versions of Thomas Hardy's Novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure." Adviser - Beach
Chittenden, E. Porter
1897
"The Labial Series in English Sounds."
Clark, John Williams
1941
"The Authorship of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Erkenwald in the Light of the Vocabulary." Adviser - Ruud
Colberg, Ernest Johnson
1909
"The Development of the English Essay." Adviser - Burton
Conklin, Paul
1937
"A History of Hamlet Criticism: Part I, 1601-1800." Adviser - Stoll
Culhane, Mary
1945
"Thoreau, Melville, Poe, and the Romantic Quest." Adviser - McDowell
Elveback, Helen Bell
1946
"The Novels of Theodore Dreiser with an Analysis of His Other Writings." Adviser - Beach
Flanagan, John
1935
"Emerson and the State." Adviser - McDowell
Gimmestad, Bernard
1948
"Three Churchill Studies." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Grahame, Roberta
1940
"A Study of the Cross-Section Novel Written in English Since 1915." Adviser - Beach
Hallam, Edward
1939
"William Shenstone: A Critical Study." Adviser - Ruud
Hamilton, Edward
1940
"The Life of John Gay." Adviser - Ruud
Hardman, Marion
1939
"Terror in American Prose Fiction to 1835." Adviser - McDowell
Harmon, Alice
1939
"Loci Communes on Death and Suicide in the Literature of the English Renaissance." Adviser - H. Brown
Hong, Howard
1938
"Thomas Amory: Eccentric Literary Philosopher." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Hulme, Francis
1947
"A History of Music-Imagery in European Literature with Special Emphasis on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century English, American, and French Literature." Adviser - Atkins
Hursley, Frank McCall
1942
"The Social Attitudes and Convictions of James Russell Lowell During His First Creative Period, 1838-1851." Adviser - McDowell
Jayne, Violet DeLille
1903
"The Technique of George Eliot's Novels." Adviser - McClumpha
Jones, Gwen Ann
1918
"Three Welsh Religious Plays." Adviser - H. Brown
Keenan, Anna
1936
"The Poetry of Francis Thompson with Particular Reference to the Influences of the Metaphysical Poets, Shelley, and Patmore." Adviser - Phelan
Kerr, Elizabeth
1941
"The Twentieth Century Sequence Novel." Adviser - Beach
Kierzek, John "The American Historical Novel Since the Civil War." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Kirchner, William
1938
"Henry David Thoreau as a Social Critic." Adviser - McDowell
Kline, Judd
1947
"John Shebbeare (1710-1788) Physician, Novelist and Pamphleteer." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Kretzmann, Paul
1915
"The Liturgical Element in the Earliest Forms of the Medieval Drama with Special Reference to the English and German Plays." Adviser - Craig
Lefevre, Carl
1943
"Gogol's First Century in England and America (1841-1941)." Adviser - Beach
Litchfield, Florence
1935
"The Treatment of the Theme of Mutability in the Literature of the English Renaissance: A Study of the Problem of Change between 1558 and 1600." Adviser - Bush
Lokensgard, Hjalmar
1944
"A Study of the Essays of Oliver Wendell Holmes." Adviser - McDowell
Lyle, Marie Caroline
1917
"The Original Identity of the York and Towneley Cycles." Adviser - Craig
MacLachlin, Mary
1948
"Edwin Lawrence Godkin: Utilitarian Editor." Adviser - McDowell
MacLean, Malcolm
1929
"Eighteenth-Century Theories of the Comic." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Malmin, Marie
1929
"An Annotated Bibliography of the Translations and Criticisms of Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish Literature in England and America." Adviser - Ruud
McCarthy, Sister Mary Brigetta
1938
T"he English Lyrics of the Fourteenth Century." Adviser - Ruud
Montgomery, Franz
1938
"William Combe." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Norlie, Olaf Morgan
1908

"The Principles of Expressive Reading, a Study of the Human Voice." Adviser - Burton
Panage, John
1958
"Representative Late Nineteenth Century English Utopias." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Peterson, Doris
1942
"Landor's Treatment of His Source Materials in the Imaginary Conversations Greek and Roman." Adviser - Beach
Robbins, Harry
1923
"Saint Edmund's Merure de Seinte Eglise: An Early Example of Rhythmical Prose." Advisers - C. Brown & LeCompte
Sarchet, Helen
1951
"Women in English Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century from 1740 to 177.", Advisers - C. A. Moore & Hillhouse
Scurr, Helen
1922
"Henry Brooke." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Seeley, Kenneth
1947
"Five Keys to Gulliver." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Stocks. Betty
1949
"Hobbes and the Restoration Wits." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Thurston, Marjorie
1940
"The Literary Form of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World." Adviser - H. Brown
Tressman, Luella
1935
"Early Whig-Tory Satire in England." Adviser - C. A. Moore
Turpie, Mary
1943
"The Growth of Emerson's Thought." Adviser - McDowell
Willer, William
1944
"Native Themes in American Short Prose Fiction, 1770-1835." Adviser - McDowell
Winters, Warrington
1942
"Unusual Mental Phenomena in the Life and Works of Charles Dickens." Adviser - Hillhouse
Wulling, Emerson
1938
"William Hazlitt as a Literary Critic." Adviser - Beach
grad students

Jigna Desai (PhD 1999), associate professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota