MATERIALS FOR INVESTIGATIONS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (1926)1 BY ERNEST E. LEISY A. DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED 1. On Individual Writers Bagby, Dr. George William: a Study in Virginian Literature, 18501880. J. L. King. 1927. Columbia. Dunlap, William. O. S. Coad. 1917. Columbia. Dunlap Society, N. Y. Emerson's Debt to Coleridge, Carlyle, Wordsworth. F. T. Thompson. 1925. N. Carolina. *Emerson and Goethe. F. B. Wahr. 1915. Michigan. George Wahr, Ann Arbor. Halleck, Fitz-Greene. N. F. Adkins. Yale. James, Henry, as a Critic. W. P. Jones. 1925. Cornell. James, Henry, Theory and Practice in. H. L. Hughes. 1923. Virginia. Kennedy, James Pendleton. E. M. Gwathmey. 1926. Virginia. Lampman, Archibald. C. Y. Connor. 1926. Columbia. Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner. F. R. Reade. 1926. Virginia. Paulding, James K. A. L. Herold. 1925. Columbia. Columbia University Press. 1926. Smith, Seba, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Two American Pioneers). Mary Wyman. 1926. Columbia University Press. 1927. *Taylor, Bayard, as Literary Mediator. J. T. Krumpelmann. 1924. Harvard. Williams, Roger. The Political Theory of. J. E. Ernst. 1926. Washington. University of Washington Press. 1927. 2. On Topics of a General Nature American Colloquial Idiom, The, 1830-60. E. R. Hunter. 1925. Chicago. Anti-Slavery Sentiment in American Literature prior to 1865. L. D. Turner. 1926. Chicago. Death Song of the "Noble Savage," The. H. B. Jones. 1924. Chicago. Dickens, Charles, and the American Theater. Virginia Hudson. 1926. Chicago. Early English Pronunciation in the United States. Anders Orbeck. 1926. Columbia. 1 Addenda and Errata to "A Bibliography of Dissertations, Articles, Research in Progress, and Collections of Americana," published in Studies in Philology, xxIII, 1, January, 1926. * Asterisks indicate dissertations in Germanics. Indian Literature, North American. G. H. Daugherty, Jr. 1925. Chicago. Influence of Scott on American Literature. G. H. Orians. 1926. Illinois. Literary Dialect of the Southern Highlander, A Descriptive Study of. W. P. Carson. 1926. Columbia. Literary Tendencies in New York, 1789-1840. Eleanor Scott. 1925. Wisconsin. Newspapers, Boston Daily, 1830-50. Priscilla Fowle. 1920. Radcliffe. Prairie and the Making of Middle America, The. D. A. Dondore. 1924. Columbia. The Torch Press, 1926. (First of a series to deal with Forest, Plains, Mountains and Sea.) Reaction against Puritanism in American Periodicals of the Eighteenth Century. Elizabeth Jackson. 1916. Radcliffe. Theatre, Brief History of the American of the 18th Century. Frances Hyams. 1916. Radcliffe. B. DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS 1. On Individual Writers Allen, James Lane. Grant C. Knight. Columbia. Barker, James Nelson. P. H. Musser. Pennsylvania. Briggs, Charles F., The Life and Letters of. D. D. Henry. Penna. State College. Cooke, Rose Terry. Mrs. Frost. Columbia. Cooke, Rose Terry, in the Development of the Short Story. N. B. Fagin. Franklin, Benjamin, The Vocabulary of. Lois McLaurim. Chicago. Hayne, Paul Hamilton. E. L. Johnson. Columbia. Hoffman, Charles Fenno. H. F. Barnes. Columbia. Hoyt, Charles, The Life and Plays of. Douglas Hunt. Chicago. James, Henry, as a Critic. M. Roberts. Harvard. Johnston, Richard Malcolm. F. T. Long. Columbia. Lanier's Thought in Relation to that of his Age. P. E. Graham. Chicago. Neal, John. I. T. Richards. Harvard. Nye's, Bill, Place among American Humorists. Walter Blair. Chicago. O'Brien, Fitz-James. F. Wolle. Columbia. O'Brien, Fitz-James, and his Group, Influence on Literature of the 1850's. C. B. Spotts. Penna. State College. Sardou, The Relation of to the American Theatre. Henrietta Naeseth. Chicago. Thoreau's Social Theories. W. A. Blankenship. Washington. Twain, Mark: The Growth of his Mind. M. M. Brashear. N. Carolina. Tyler, Royall. J. R. Brandon. Columbia. Whitman's Concept of Democracy. Leon Howard. Johns Hopkins. Whitman, Literary Influences on. John Kemmerer. Columbia. Whitman's Sources, especially Shakespeare. R. C. Harrison. 2. On Topics of a General Nature American Biography. H. H. Caldwell. Columbia. American Literary Criticism to 1835. Dana K. Merrill. Columbia. Critics, The American Romantic. Harold Eby. Washington. Indian, The Real and the Romantic in American Literature. J. A. Russell. Cornell. Influence of the German Tale on the Tales of Irving, Poe, Hawthorne. H. A. Pochmann. N. Carolina. Influence of Pope on 18th Cent. American Satire. H. E. Briggs. Minnesota. Influence of Wordsworth in America, 1820-48. Anabel Newton. Michigan. Kentucky Tragedy in American Literature, The. A. S. McIllwaine. Chicago. Literary Dialects, American. G. H. Genzmer. Columbia. Literary Taste in Baltimore, 1815-33. J. E. Uhler. Johns Hopkins. Magazine, The American, in the 18th Century. L. N. Richardson. Columbia. Music, The Major American Romantic Writers' Knowledge and Use of the Art of. A. B. Kelly. N. Carolina. Negro, The American, as Author. Vernon Loggins. Columbia. New England Transcendentalism, German Sources of. J. H. Groth. Columbia. "Noble Savage," The, in France, England, and America. J. W. Harris. N. Carolina. Northern Travellers in the Southern States before the Civil War. A. S. Withers. Columbia. Novel, Religious Elements in the, before 1860. L. Blankenbuehler. Min nesota. Political Ballads, Early American. J. P. Fife. Harvard. Quaker Influence, The, in American Literature. Murray Hill. Minnesota. Realism, The Controversy over, in American Letters, 1865-94. B. B. Lane. N. Carolina. Satire, Early American Social. T. L. Kellogg. Radcliffe. Sonnet in America, The. L. G. Sterner. Pennsylvania. Texas, The Literature of. H. W. Adams. Columbia. Theatre, A History of the Philadelphia, to 1825. B. T. McClure. Pennsylvania. Theatre, The Early New England. W. N. Morse. Harvard. Village School in American Literature, The. Rochard Foster. Columbia. C. OTHER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS American Criticism. Norman Foerster. American Criticism of British Writings. W. B. Cairns. American Literature of the 18th Century. R. P. Baker. American Magazines, A History of. F. L. Mott. American Poetry, A History of. R. L. Rusk. Annals of the New York Stage. G. C. D. Odell. (First two vols., 1927.) Ballads, English and Scottish, in Virginia. A. K. Davis. Beginnings of American Fiction. J. H. Nelson. Beginnings of National Consciousness in American Literature. Ola Winslow. Books in America, 1700-65. Kenneth Murdock. Brooks, Maria. T. O. Mabbott. Bunner, H. C. Gerard E. Jensen. Critical Realism in America, The Rise of. V. L. Parrington. Drake, Joseph K. T. O. Mabbott and F. L. Pleadwell. Freneau, Philip. Harry H. Clark. History of the Chicago Theatre after 1857. H. N. Wilt. Indian in American Literature, The. A. L. Keiser. Irving, A Life of. S. T. Williams. Leatherstocking, The Character of. G. L. Paine. Lincoln, The Speech Methods of. E. W. Wiley. Literary Coterie, The. At Johns Hopkins. Literary Interests in 18th Century Maryland. At Johns Hopkins. Literary Relationships with England. F. C. Prescott. Melville, Herman, as a New Englander. Harry H. Clark. Poe. T. O. Mabbott. Southern Literature, A History of. J. H. Nelson. Illinois Wesleyan University. |