PhD Recipients, 1950s

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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
Ames, Robert J 1952	"Walter Bagehot: A Study in Religious Compromise." Adviser - O’Connor
Bleifuss, William 1950	"Charles Dickens and the Law." Adviser - Hillhouse
Bliss, Frank 1954	"Studies in the Background of the Idea of Pride in 18^th Century Thought." Adviser - Monk
Britz, John P 1956	"French Criticism of George Eliot’s Novels." Adviser - Hillhouse
Broeker, Harriet 1957	"The Influence of Othello in Jacobean and Caroline Drama." Adviser - H. Brown
Bryan, Daniel 1953	"Samuel Butler: Creative Evolution in Literature." Adviser - O’Connor
Campbell, Charles 1952	"The Great American Novel–A Study in Literary Nationalism 1870-1900." Adviser - Hornberger
Chametzky, Julius 1958	"Reason and Desire in the Plays of Marston." Adviser - O'Connor
Cronin, Edward 1951	"Joseph Conrad: A Moral Analysis." Adviser - O’Connor
Englehart, Carl 1951	"The Reaction against Industrialism in American Literature, 1800-1860." Adviser - McDowell
Enroth, Clyde 1956	"The Movement toward Mysticism in the Novels of Aldous Huxley." Adviser - O’Connor
Feder, Lillian 1951	"John Dryden’s Interpretation and Use of Latin Poetry and Rhetoric." Adviser - Monk
Friedrich, Gerhard 1951	"The Idea of International in Emerson." Adviser - Hornberger
Goldberg, Gerald Jay 1958	"The Artist as Hero in British Fiction, 1890-1930." Adviser- O’Connor Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Wrting, UCLA
Goldman, Morris 1959	"Virginia Woolf and the Art of Criticism." Adviser - O’Connor
Gollin, Richard 1959 gollin@aol.com	"Arthur Hugh Clough’s Formative Years, 1819-1841." Adviser - Stange. Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies, University of Rochester
Halewood, William 1959	"The Uses of the Term "Baroque" in Modern Literary Criticism." Adviser - Monk
Helton, Tinsely 1952	"The Concept of Woman’s Honour in Jacobean Drama." Adviser - H. Brown
Hemphill, George 1954	"Decorum in English Verse, ca. 1569-1700." Adviser - H. Brown
Higginson, Fred 1953	"James Joyce’s Revisions of Finnegan’s Wake: A Study of the Published Versions." Adviser - Unger
Hilton, Earl 1950	"The Purpose and Method of Sherwood Anderson." Adviser - Hornberger
Hogan, Donald 1958	"Structural Design in Thomas Hardy’s Poetry." Adviser - Tate
Hong, Theodore 1958	"Cardinal Newman as a Literary Critic." Adviser - O’Connor
Hurt, Lester 1956	"A House Divided: A Study of Themes in Thomas Wolfe’s Novels." Adviser - Bowron
Jones, Alexander 1950	"Mark Twain and Religion." Adviser - Smith
Karr, Harold 1953	"Samuel Butler: His Influence on Shaw, Forster, and Lawrence." Adviser - O’Connor
Kaufman, Marjorie 1954	"Henry James’s Cosmic Discipline — the Use of the Cosmic in the Structure of his Early Fiction." Adviser - Bowron
Knoll, Robert 1950	"Fortinbras and his Character Type in Elizabethan Drama." Adviser - H. Brown
Levine, George L. 1959 georlevine@cs.com	"Determinism in the Novels of George Eliot." Adviser - Stange. Kenneth Burke Professor English and Director, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University
Lill, James 1954	"Dryden’s Adaptation from Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer." Adviser - Monk
Loso, Mary Jane 1957	"John Addington Symonds: 19^th Century Historian of the Italian Renaissance." Adviser - Stange
Malbone, Raymond 1959	"George Gissing: Novelist." Adviser - Stange
Markels, Julian 1957	"The Private and Public Worlds of Shakespeare’s Roman Plays." Adviser - Unger
McAlister, Floyd 1958	"A Survey of 20^th Century Milton Scholarship with Particular Attention to Controversoes." Adviser - H. Brown
McDavid, Virginia 1956	"Verb Forms of the North Central States and Upper Midwest." Adviser - Allen
McDonnell, Robert 1958	"The 'Aspiring Minds': A Study of Shakespearean Characters who Aspire to Political Sovereignty against the Background of Literary and Dramatic Tradition." Adviser not given.
Mild, Warren 1950	"Macaulay as a Critic of 18^th Century English Literature." Adviser - Hillhouse
Miller, Vincent 1950	"Some Characteristics of George Meredith’s Prose Style." Adviser - Hillhouse
Miner, Earl 1955 eminer@princeton.edu	"The Japanese Influence on English and American Literature, 1850-1950." Adviser - O’Connor. Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus, Princeton University
Morris, Harry 1957	"19^th and 20^th Century Criticism of Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies." Adviser - O’Connor
Nelson. Harland 1959 nelsonhs@luther.edu	"Evangelicalism in the Novels of Charles Deck." Adviser - Stange. Professor Emeritus, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
Nurmi, Martin 1954	"Blake’s Doctrine of Contraries: A Study in Visionary Metaphysics." Adviser - Erdman
Owens, Robert 1955	"Jonathan Swift’s Hostility to Science." Adviser - Hillhouse
Preus, Ove 1958	"Anne Thackeray Ritchie and the Victorian Literary Aristocracy." Adviser - O’Connor
Ramsey, Paul 1956	"The Image of Nature in John Dryden." Adviser - Monk
Randall, John 1957	"Willa Cather’s Search for Value: A Critical and Historical Study of her Fiction." Adviser - Bowron
Rathburn, Robert 1957	"Dickens’ Periodical Essays and their Relationships to the Novels." Adviser - O’Connor
Reed, Arthur 1953	"Asa Greene, New England Publisher, New York Editor and Humorist, 1789-1838." Adviser - Hornberger
Roberts, Thomas 1958	"The Reputation of Arnold Bennett over a Half Century." Adviser - O’Connor
Rodabaugh, Delmer 1951	"Hawthorne’s Use of the English and Italian Past." Adviser - McDowell
Ryan, Marjorie 1957	"The Tom Jones Hero in Plays and Novels, 1750-1800: A Study of Feeling’s Influence." Adviser - Unger
Schmidt, Paul 1951	"Samuel Clemens’s Technique as a Humorist, 1857-1872." Adviser - H. Smith
Schoff, Francis 1952	"Aspects of Shakespearean Criticism, 1914-1950–A Commentary Centered on British and American Criticism of Hamlet." Adviser - H. Brown
Seiden, Melvin 1956	"The Revenge Motive in Websterean Drama." Adviser - Tate
Spivey, Ted Ray 1954	"Two Visions of Character and Fate: A Study of Themes and Major Characters in the Novels of Thomas Hardy and George Eliot." Adviser - Hillhouse
Steinmann, Martin Jr. 1954	"T. F. Powys: A Thematic Study." Adviser - Hillhouse
Stickney, Ruth 1957	"Formal Verse Satire from Lodge to Jonson, with Particular Reference to the Imitation of Classical Modes." Adviser - H. Brown
Stock, Betty 1950	"Hobbes and the Restoration Wits." Adviser not given
Swardson, Harold 1956	"A Study of the Tension between Christian and Classical Traditions in 17^th Century Poetry." Adviser - Unger
Sweester, Margaret 1952	"Herman Melville’s Conception of the Great Writer and his Experiments in Literary Manner." Adviser - McDowell
Sylvester, William 1951	"War and Lechery: Four Themes in the Non-Shakespearean Elizabethan Theater — 1587-1603." Adviser - H. Brown
Thompson, Marvin 1956	"Uses of Music and Reflections of Current Theories of Music in the Plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher." Adviser - H. Brown
Thorslev, Peter 1959	"The 'Byronic Hero' Types and Prototypes." Adviser - Stange
Vanderbuilt, Rolfe 1956	"Democracy and Culture: The Ideas and Work of Charles Eliot Norton." Adviser - Leo Marx
Vane, George 1958	"The Father Figure in 18^th Century English Comedy." Adviser - Moore
Wheeler, Otis 1951	"Maurice Thompson: A Bibliographical and Critical Study." Adviser - Hornberger
White, Howard 1958	"The Image of Society in the Novels of William Dean Howells." Adviser - Hornberger
Willen, Gerald 1955	"Dreiser’s Moral Seriousness: A Study of the Novels." Adviser - O’Connor
Wyvell, Mary Rice 1953	"The Moral Conservatism of Edith Wharton." Adviser - O’Connor

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