This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of English. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 1952
Approach to the structural form of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" as an aid to the general reader, Robert O'Neil
Renaissance concepts of fortune in the plays of Christopher Marlowe, Robert Thompson Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 1951
Emily Dickinson, poet of revolt, Louie Wayne Attebery
From the land of shining mountains, a sonnet sequence, John Barsness
Elements of mysticism in Tennyson, Phyllis Haag
English society| a bane to progress. Similarities of philosophical ideas in Samuel Butler and George Bernard Shaw, Duane Joseph Hoynes
Long wait and other stories, Henry V. Larom
Four short stories, Glenn Elwin Matott
Voice in the night, a drama in three acts, Margaret Ingeborg Reeb
Literary criticism contained in the works of Mark Twain, John Joseph Sutrina
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
Walt Whitman as a literary critic, Elizabeth Mary Dahl
Augustan criticism of Milton, 1667-1725, Richard L. Darling
Middle class thought in Elizabethan England as reflected in the novels of Thomas Deloney, Thomas Lawrence Deen
Medieval esthetic ideal of proportion in Chaucer's longer poems, Vincent Leroy Gadbow
Satire in the novels of Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrew Grimm
Elizabethan imagery in the poetry of Drummond of Hawthornden, Phyllis Lytle Harris
William Hazlitt's attitude toward foreigners, Winifred Violet Lapp
Religious consistency and sincerity of John Dryden| The evidence, principally in the religious poems, Patrick Edwin Lee
Vagabond in metaphor; Wallace Stevens' imagery, Jean Ann Pocta
Symbolic pattern in Conrad's early fiction, Lawrence Frederick Rooney
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
Attitudes of aristocratic New England as expressed in the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Burton Cecil Newbry
Philosophical ideas common to the writings of Henri Bergson T. E. Hulme and T. S. Eliot, Agnes Antonia Regan
Too lately born, an original play in three acts, Alfred Simon
Comparative analysis of some Montana folksongs, Robert C. Wylder
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
Study of the poetry of Howard McKinley Corning, Harold Frederick Boe
George Moore as naturalist and realist, Cheryl Anne Craig
Thomas Love Peacock's satire of his literary contemporaries, Kathleen Hammond
Mr. Doynbee's Compensation, Walter N. King
Study of Hart Crane's symbolism in "White Buildings" and "The Bridge", Virginia Elizabeth Perkins
Montana novel before 1914, Ruth Willard Robinson
Sherwood Anderson's philosophy of life as shown by the action of characters in his novels, Arthur Marshall Sanderson
Theses/Dissertations from 1947
Study of John Galsworthy's social criticism, Ivan Edward Ahlgren
Authenticity and treatment of the historical background in the revolutionary romances of William Gilmore Simms, Edward Anthony Cebull
Application of modern psychological theories to the characters of Thomas Wolfe, George David Craig
Theory and practice in the drama of William Butler Yeats, Helen Pauline Formos
William Morris' theories of art as the basis of his socialism, Joseph Lambert Keller
Jean, a novel, Tate W. Peek
Bernard Shaw's attitude toward certain social institutions, William R. Slager
Sun dance and other stories, Robert Powerls Struckman
John Marston and the decline of the Elizabethan tragedy, Frederic Homer Zook
Theses/Dissertations from 1946
Henry Adams| What he wanted, why he "failed", what he meant by "education", James Emet Gardner
Henry Fielding's portrayal of debtors, George H. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1942
Investigation of Aldous Huxley's religious ideas, James D. Mitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
Inquiry into the part played by images and figures of speech in the technique of the novels of Virginia Woolf, Agnes Kathleen Mace
Theses/Dissertations from 1940
Aldous Huxley's use of music in "Point Counter Point", Bennett Brudevold
Young is the blood; fifty poems, Robert H. Fetterly
Hundred years on the Ishawooa, Alphin T. Gould
Study of diction and imagery in the poetry of Robert Browning, Grace Ryon
Theses/Dissertations from 1938
Light on the wing; a novel, Glen Peelman
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
War and peace concepts in the works of Thackeray, Kenneth Spaulding
Theses/Dissertations from 1936
Dead Indian Ledge, and other poems, Ralph A. Micken
Theses/Dissertations from 1934
Realism of William Dean Howells| A Marxian interpretation, John Waters Houston
Emily Bronte biography, Maureen Hayes Mansfield
Thomas Hardy's use of physical nature, Constance Rose Nutt
Theses/Dissertations from 1933
D. H. Lawrence in his novels, Ruth Crosby Dix
Revolt of T.S. Eliot against Wordsworthian tendencies in nineteenth century poetry, Charles Hilton
Comparison of the literary criticism of Walter Bagehot and William Hazlitt, Hugh R. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1932
Influence of Richardson on seven early American novels, Leon Carew Fitzgerald
Introduction of the foreign drama of ideas into America, Mary Charlotte Lefever
Social ideas in the writings of Stephen Crane, Vernon Mickelson
Memoirs of a frontiers woman, Mary C. Ronan, Margaret Ronan
Custer, a play, Paul F. Treichler
Theses/Dissertations from 1931
Irony, the integrant in the art and philosophy of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad, Richard Gordon Lillard
Study of the Puritan element in Emily Dickinson, Marion Alice Payzant
Bierce and Mencken as critics of their times, Shirley Deane Wagstaff
Theses/Dissertations from 1930
Some American adaptations of the King Arthur tradition, Irene Berg
Chaucer's changing conceptions of the humble lover, Agnes K. Getty
Brand from the burning, Alice Passano Hancock
Theses/Dissertations from 1927
Chronological biography of John Forster, 1812-1876, Catherine Ritchey
Theses/Dissertations from 1926
Coleridge's theory of art| A study of its source and effect, Grace Davidson Baldwin
Theses/Dissertations from 1921
Spenser, the poet and teacher, Laura Moore
Theses/Dissertations from 1915
Shakespeare's indication of scenery through descriptive poetry| An independent study, A. Keiser