Maurice O. Johnson
Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
1976
Philip B. Grant
"William Blake's The Everlasting Gospel: A Study "
1975
Fredric Weiss
"Satiric Aspects of the Early Gothic Novel "
1974
Cynthia Stodola Pomerleau
"Early Autobiographical Writings of English Women (1650-1800)"
1972
Thomas M. Akstens
"Pope and History "
Ann Cline Kelly
"Jonathan Swift's Dramatic Poems "
Ian M. Irvine
"Metaphoric Representation in the Novels of Jane Austen"
John J Moriarity
"Subversive John Gay: Satiric Intention and Method in His Poetry "
1971
James E Evans
"Fielding's Supporting Characters in the Structure of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia "
William C Horne
"Style and Diction in Samuel Butler's Hudibras"
John C Riely
"The literary rivalry of James Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi as biographers of Samuel Johnson"
1970
Toby A Olshin
"Sterne's Concept of the Imagination in Tristram Shandy"
1969
Robert D Hume
"Dryden's Criticism "
1968
Howard Benoist, III
"A Study of Samuel Richardson's A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions, Contained in the Histories of Pamela, Calrissa, and Sir Charles Grandison--1755"
Carolyn Burrows Matalene
"The Faces of Chronos: Temporal Innovations in Techniques of the Novel "
John D. Garvick
"Chaos and Continuity in Smart's Jubilate Agno"
Alan T McKenzie
"The Scriblerian Poems to Gulliver's Travels"
1967
Helmuth Joel
"Oliver Goldsmith and the Theme of Education"
1966
Kathleen Swaim
"Swift's Narrative Art: A Study of the Imagery and Structure of "Gulliver's Travels""
1964
John Raban Bilder
"The Minor Tradition in English Prose Fiction: The Novel of Ideas"
Irwin Gopnik
"Verbal Structure and Richardson's "Clarissa""
Charles Anthony Knight
""Clarissa:" A Critical Analysis"
1963
Howard L. Hannum
"Tobias Smollett: Fiction and Caricature"
1962
Barry Slepian
"Jonathan Swift and George Faulkner"
1961
Ernest Howard Hunter Davis
"Social Satire in the Narrative Prose Fiction of the Early Eighteenth Century "
Donald Charles Mell Jr
"Variations on Elegiac Themes: Dryden, Pope, Prior, Gray, Johnson"
1960
Brother Patrick Ellis
"A Critical Analysis of John Dryden's "The Hind and the Panther""
1959
Kenneth William Keuffel
"The "Great Man" in English Satire, 1710-1743"
Ruthe Turner Sheffey
"The Literary Reputation of Aphra Behn "
1957
Eleanor Newman Hutchness
"Verbal Irony in "Tom Jones""
Walter Butler Kelly
"Samuel Boyse"
1955
Richard Kilburn Meeker
"Experiments in Point of View: Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Narrators in the Eighteenth Century, English Novel "
Thomas Rogers
"Robert Blair and "The Grave""
1952
Gordon Ward Couchman
"William Falconer: Seaman Poet; A Study of "The Shipwreck" "