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Ph.D. Dissertations

Bennett, Bridget Kathleen Gwendoline. “Harold Frederic (1856-1898): Lives and Works. Such Conflicts and Clashings Between Two Hostile Inner Selves Have a Part in the Personal History of Each of Us.” Diss. U of York, U.K., 1992.

Bluefarb, Sam. “The Escape Motif in the Modern American Novel: Mark Twain to Carson McCullers.” Diss. U of New Mexico, 1966.

Briggs, Austin, Jr. “The Novels of Harold Frederic.” Diss. Columbia U, 1963. 

Campbell, Donna M. “Repudiating the ‘Age of the Carved Cherry-Stones’: The Naturalists’ Reaction Against Women’s Local Color Fiction.” Diss. U of Kansas, 1990.

Clark, Jean Marshall. “Harold Frederic: His Fictive Imagination and the Intellectual Milieu.” Diss. U of Maryland, 1980.

Filetti, Jean D. “Harold Frederic’s Political Pessimism.” Diss. U of Toledo, 1981.

Fisher, Marilyn M. “‘If He is Wicked and Cruel, As This Theology Makes, We Do Not Want His Heaven!’: Women and Their Perceptions of Calvinism and Salvation in Selected Novels, 1850-1900.” Diss. Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 1986.

Fitzgerald, Vincent Branick. “Ideas and Literature: Degeneration and Recapitulation in Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction.” Diss. U of Southern California, 1997.

Foote, Stephanie Anne. “Image-Nation: Nationalism and Regionalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Fiction.” Diss. State U of New York at Buffalo, 1994.

Gamble, Richard H. “The Figure of the Protestant Clergyman in American Fiction.” Diss. U of Pittsburgh, 1972.

Garner, Stanton. “Harold Frederic: The Major Works.” Diss. Brown U, 1963.

Haines, Paul. “Harold Frederic.” Diss. New York U, 1945.

Hamer, Paul Evans. “The Methodist Imagination of Harold Frederic: A Study of the Realistic Novels.” Diss. U of Notre Dame, 1994.

Hands, Charles B. “Harold Frederic: A Critical Study of the American Works.” Diss. U of Notre Dame, 1959.

Holmes, William J. “A Study of the Novels of Harold Frederic.” Diss. U of Iowa, 1962.

Klopfenstein, Glenn Douglas. “A Second Discovery of Harold Frederic: A Defense in Theory and Practice of the Close Reading.” Diss. State U of New York at Stonybrook, 1993.

Mitchell, Marvin O. “A Study of the Realistic and Romantic Elements in the Fiction of E. W. Howe, Joseph Kirkland, Hamlin Garland, Harold Frederic, and Frank Norris (1882-1902).” Diss. U of North Carolina, 1953.

Mizrahi, Joan Berman. “The American Image of Women as Musicians and Pianists, 1850-1900.” Diss. U of Maryland College Park, 1989

Myers, Robert M. “Harold Frederic: Reluctant Expatriate.” Diss. Pennsylvania State U, 1991.

O’Connor, Leo F. “The Image of Religion in Selected American Novels: 1880-1920.” Diss. New York U, 1972.

O’Donnell, Thomas F. “The Regional Fiction of Upstate New York.” Diss. Syracuse U, 1957.

Pimple, Kenneth D. “Speech and Moral Character: A Study of Selected Preachers in Nineteenth Century American Literature.” Diss. Indiana U, 1991.

Prchal, Timothy Ross. “Make-Believe Reality: American Literary Realism and Its Original Readers.” Diss. U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998.

Rogers, Ralph R. “Harold Frederic: His Development As A Comic Realist.” Diss. Columbia U, 1961.

Rose, Linda [Mary]. “Before the Loathsome Crowd: Women on State in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature.” Diss. Purdue U, 1993.

See, Fred Gared. “Metaphoric and Metonymic Imagery in XIXth Century American Fiction: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Harold Frederick [sic].” Diss. U of California, Berkeley, 1968.

Shuck, Emerson C. “Clergymen in Representative American Fiction, 1830-1930: A Study in Attitudes Toward Religion.” Diss. U of Wisconsin, 1943.

Siferd, Nancy Kay. “Textual Range in the Novels of Harold Frederic.” Diss. Bowling Green U, 1970.

Suderman, Elmer F. “Religion in the American Novel.” Diss. U of Kansas, 1961.

Victor, David Allen. “The Prospering Temptress in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction: Characterization and Literary Realism in the Novels of John W. De Forest and Henry James.” Diss. U of Michigan, 1984.

Walcutt, Charles C. "Naturalism in the American Novel." Diss. U of Michigan, 1938.

Woodward, Robert H. “Harold Frederic: A Study of His Novels, Short Stories, and Plays.” Diss. Indiana U, 1957.

Wüstenhagen, Heinz. “Harold Frederics Romane als Betrag zur Entwicklung des bürgerlichkritischen Realismus in der amerikanischen Literatur.” Diss. U of Potsdam, 1963.

Yarbrough, Patricia Marie. “The Legacy of Dimmesdale: The Clergyman in Representative American Fiction.” Diss. Arizona State U, 1987.

Master’s Theses

Baker, Elizabeth B. “The Scarlet Letter, The Damnation of Theron Ware, A Month of Sundays: The Minister Figure and the Pattern of Failure.” Thesis. U of South Carolina, 1986.

Blansett, Georgeanne Elise. “The Dragon Fight: Individuation and the Archetypal Journey in Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of Denver, 1990.

Burke, Dolores Lewis. “The American Reality: The Dream as Dissected by Frederic, Dreiser and Ellison in Selected Works, with Comparisons to Hawthorne.” Thesis. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.

Butcher, Lory A. “Women as Types in Three Novels by Harold Frederic.” Thesis. Chico State College, 1968.

Copeland, Marion Wilson. “The Treatment of Religious Denominations in the Novels of Harold Frederic.” Thesis. Syracuse U, 1961.

Darnell, Donald G. “The American Fiction of Harold Frederic: A Study of Its Development.” Thesis. U of Oklahoma, 1961.

Dorion, Mark George. “A Midpoint Between Romanticism and Naturalism: Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of Texas at El Paso, 1987.

Ellis, Grace Winn. “Deception and Self-Deception in The Damnation of Theron Ware and Seth’s Brother’s Wife.” Thesis. Emory U, 1971.

Garner, Stanton. “Unity and Fragmentation in the Works of Harold Frederic.” Thesis. Brown U, 1960.

Genthe, Charles V. “A Realist and His Time: The Image of Society in the Novels of Harold Frederic.” Thesis. U of Wyoming, 1960.

Gragg, Perry E. “Harold Frederic and the New Woman.” Thesis. U of Texas at Austin, 1955.

Hagen, William Henry. “Archetypal Patterns of the Romance in The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1968.

Irons, Susan H. “Imagery in The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979.

Leeson, Theodore. “Multiple Experiences in Two Readings of The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of Virginia, 1979.

Limbacher, William Frederick. “Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware: An Interpretation.” Thesis. Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville, 1971.

Newton, Sarah Emily. “Harold Frederic: The Development of an American Realist.” Thesis. U of Akron, 1963.

Nieves, Julie. “The Sexual Realism of Harold Frederic.” Thesis. Pennsylvania State U, 1969.

Pettis, Willia Mae. “A Study of Harold Frederic’s Seth’s Brother’s Wife and The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967.

Pharr, Donald Bruce. “Elmer Gantry and The Damnation of Theron Ware: A Comparison.” Thesis. U of Georgia, 1983.

Powell, Jesse Daryll. “The Damnation of Theron Ware: The Ambiguities of Adaptation.” Thesis. Cornell U, 1965.

Ryan, Nancy Alicia. “An Investigation and Analysis of The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. California State U, Sacramento, 1966.

Schroeder, Duane Roger. “Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware: A Critical Evaluation.” Thesis. U of Texas at Arlington, 1974.

Silverman, Kenneth E. “Harold Frederic: His Themes, Techniques, and Place in American Literature.” Thesis. Columbia U, 1958.

Spain, Steve Randall. “An Illumination of the Damned: Psychoanalytic Exploration of Character through American Naturalism in Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. Longwood College, 1992.

Spangler, Helen. “Harold Frederic as Social Critic.” Thesis. U of Houston, 1965.

Steele, Mildred Romedahl. “The Identification of Theron Ware: A Study of Harold Frederic’s Novel.” Thesis. Drake U, 1968.

Teitz, Barbara. “Three Neglected Novels in American Literature by Joseph Kirkland, Harold Frederic, and E. W. Howe.” Thesis. Columbia U, 1954.

Vanderbeets, Richard. “Harold Frederic’s Contemporary Mohawk Valley Novels: A Social Indictment.” Thesis. U of Idaho, 1963.

Vekasy, Sandra C. “Henry James and Harold Frederic: Two Views of the American 1870’s.” Thesis. Bowling Green State U, 1969.

Vitzthum, Marcella Ann. “The Forgiving of Theron Ware.” Thesis. U of Maryland, College Park, 1972.

Walcutt, Charles C. "Naturalism in the American Novel." Diss. U. f Michigan, 1938.

Wilson, Josephine McMahon. “A Review of the Writings of Harold Frederic.” Thesis. Cornell U, 1949.

Woolworth, Norman Jeffrey. “The Ethics of Realism and Naturalism in Representative Nineteenth Century American Novels: The Rise of Silas Lapham, The House of Mirth, The Damnation of Theron Ware, McTeague, and Sister Carrie.” Thesis. U of Virginia, 1984.

Wuerthele, George B.  “Beyond Naturalism: The Death of American Innocence in The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Thesis. Kent State U, 1970.

 




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