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John Cooper Mendenhall

1919 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Clarence Griffin Child
"Aureate Terms: A Study in the Literary Diction of the Fifteenth Century"

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

1949

Charlotte Ruth Wright Hayre "Samuel Jackson Pratt, Novelist and Poet (1747-1814)"

1948

Alfred W. Hesse "Nicholes Rowe's Translation of Lucans's Pharsalia 1719. A Study in Literary History "

1947

Lois Galbraith Dickie "The Established Clergy as Depicted in English Prose Fiction from 1740-1800"
Dorothy Hughes Eshlem "Elizabeth Griffith, A Biographical and Critical Study"
Daniel Abuhone Fineman "Leonard Welsted, Gentleman Poet of the Augustan Age"
Perry Fridy Kendig "The Poems of Saint Columban. Translated into English Verse with an Introduction and Bibliography"

1945

Ilse Dusoir Lind Polskin "The Biography of Richard Jago: A Study in Eighteenth Century Localism"

1944

Charles Theodore Houpt "Mark Akenside: A biographical and Critical Study "
Eliza Pearl Shippen "Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827)"

1942

William Charles Powell "Christopher Anstey: Bath Laureate"

1941

Richard Daniel Altick "Richard Owen Cambridge: Belated Augustan"

1938

Kenneth Chester Slagle "The English Squire as Depicted in English Prose Fiction from 1740 to 1800"
Eugene Hulse Sloane "Robert Gould, Seventeenth Century Satirist"
Ann Matlack Weygandt "Kipling's Reading and Its Influence on His Poetry"

1937

Kathryn Gilbert Dapp Cook "George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman"
Earl Harlan "Elijah Fenton, 1683-1730"

1936

Florence May Anna Hilbish "Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist (1748-1806)"

1935

Calvin Daniel Yost "The Poetry of the Gentleman's Magazine: A Study in Eighteenth Century Literary Taste"

1934

William Hafner Cornog "The Anticlaudian of Alain de Lille. Prologue, Argument, and Nine Books Translated, with an Intro and Notes"
John Campbell Major "The Role of Personal Memoirs in English Biography and Novel"

1932

Godfrey Frank Singer "The Epistolary Novel"

1931

Walter Marion Crittenden "The Life and Writings of Mrs. Sarah Scott, Novelist (1723-1795)"

1929

Thomas Philip Haviland "The 'Roman de Longue Haleine' on English Soil"

1924

John Mark Longaker "Della Cruscans and William Gifford: The History of a Minor Movement in an Age of Literary Transition"

1923

Randolph Faries II "Ancient Rome in the English Novel: A Study in English Historical Fiction"