American Doctoral Theses: Eizabeth Gaskell


  • Green, Robert Charles, One and Many in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell: Increments of a Comprehensive Vision (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1980)
  • Laun, Ellen Margot, 'Couchant' Lion Under Glass: A Study of Elizabeth Gaskell's Shorter Fiction (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1980)
  • Meyer, Emily, Growing amid Change: Elizabeth Gaskell's Vision of Personal Development (A dissertation: Boston College, 1982)
  • Bacigalupo, Marie D., The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985)
  • Reddy, Maureen Teresa, Elizabeth Gaskell's Short Fiction (A Thesis: University of Minnesota, 1985)
  • Howell, Mary Brooks, The Heart of Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unitarian Spirit (A dissertation: Texas Woman's University, 1985)
  • Buchanan, Laurie E., Contradicting the Ideal: The Heroines in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell (A dissertation: Bowling Green State University, 1985)
  • Eifrig, Gail Mcgrew, Growing out of Motherhood: The Changing Role of the Narrator in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985)
  • Fair, Thomas Parks, The Paternal Model in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell (A Thesis, Universityof Colorado, 1986)
  • Reddy, Maureen Teresa, Elizabeth Gaskell's Short Fiction (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989)
  • Bick, Suzann, Towards a Female Bildungsroman: The Protagonist in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1991)

Lovering, Virginia Louise
Sexual Displacement in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell
University of Toronto 
1990

Goldner, Ellen J.
Unsettling Lies: Imagining Interdependent Causation 
   in the British and American Novel, 1855-1905
Brandeis University
1991

Davis, Deanna Louise
Household Sympathy and the Limits of Real Things: Dilemmas 
   of a Feminine Morality in George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell
University of California, Los Angeles
1991

Allera, Francis Charles
The Victorian Novel (1844-1851): As Social Protest: 
   Three Victorian Novelists as Seen in Contemporary Reviews
The Florida State University
1991

Retan, Katherine Allison
Opening the Floodgates: The Construction and Transgression 
   of Gender and Class Boundaries in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, 
   Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell
University of Minnesota
1991

Pike, Elizabeth Holly
Family and Society in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
State University of New York at Buffalo
1991

Hauch, Linda A. 
The Storyteller's Voice: The Dialogic Art of Elizabeth Gaskell
University of Ottawa
1991

Miller, Andrew H. 
The Solicitudes of Material Culture: Victorian Novels 
   and the Commodity Form
Princeton University
1991

Carse, Wendy Kay
Domesticity and the Victorian Gothic Short Story: 'Flesh and Blood 
   is not Made for Such Encounters'
Tulane University
1991

D'Albertis, Deirdre Anne
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text: Politics, Gender, 
   and Genre
Harvard University
1991

Betz, Barbara G. Till
Father--Daughter Relationships in Selected Novels of Mary 
   Elizabeth Braddon
University of Delaware
1992

Park, Jung-Hwa Oh
Exceptional, Conventional and Dumb Women in Austen, C. Bronte, 
   Gaskell and Eliot
Cornell University
1992

Kathleen Ann
The Novel of English Working--Class Movements, 1848-1914: Gaskell, 
   Dickens, Harkness, and Tressell
Michigan State University
1992

Mcmullen, Buck
Allergies of Reading: Some Ambiguities of Literacy in 
   Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
University of Colorado at Boulder
1992

Mcdonough, Robert Edwin
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Development of A Vision of Society
New York University
1992

Colby, Robin Bailey
A Woman's Work: Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell
Duke University
1992

Huber, Caroline P. 
'Complicated Matters': The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
1992

Greenfeld, Stephen S. 
The Value of Transgression in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell 
   and George Eliot
Columbia University
1992

Weitzman, Marla Lee
Crossing Gender Lines:Cross--Dressing in the Works of Charlotte 
   Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf
University of Virginia
1992

Taylor, Megan Gray
A Straining in the Text: Women Writers and the Deconstruction 
   of the Sentimental Plot, 1845-1900
University of Maryland College Park
1993

Kahn, Jacquelyn Sue
Women's Associations in Victorian Literature and Culture: 
   Friendship, Rivalry, and Alternative Alliances in the Third Sphere
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1993

Birckmayer, Katherine Kendall
Life Behind the Mask: Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell 
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
1993

Gillooly, Eileen
Smile of Discontent: Feminized Humorous Discourse in 
   Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Columbia University
1993

Curlin, Jane Renee
Writing Women: Feminine Self-Figuration in the Work of 
   Elizabeth Gaskell
The University of Tulsa
1993

Appelbaum, Brooks
Eluding the 'Lady Novelist': The Critical Writing of Charlotte Bronte 
   and Elizabeth Gaskell
Cornell University
1994

Kuhlman, Mary Louise Haynes
Settings for Class and Gender in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novels
The University of Nebraska
1994

Thaden, Barbara Zembachs
The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal 
   Family
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1994

Parker, Pamela Corpron
Fictional Philanthropy: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Rise of 
   the Public Woman
University of Oregon
1994

Mcgavran, Dorothy Heissenbuttel
Honesty Admits discourse: Lying in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1994

Mahlis, Kristen Helen
'Formed for Labour, not for Love': Self-Cultivation and 
   The Victorian Heroine
University of California,  Berkeley
1994

Fitzwilliam, Marie Ann
The Dissenter Tamed: Gender and Class Conservatism in Elizabeth 
   Gaskell's Short Stories
University of Missouri
1994

Wood, Susan Haines
Clio's Voice Regained: Historical Novels by Four Nineteenth-Century 
   Women
The University of Tennessee
1994

Yang, Sharon Rose
The Angel with Clipped Wings: The Female Teacher of Pastoral Values 
   in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
The University of Connecticut
1994

Thow, Helen Elizabeth
Father-Daughter Relationships in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell
Drew University
1994

Johnston, Susan Janet
Calling the Question: Women and Domestic Experience in British 
   Political Fictions, 1787-1869
Mcgill University (Canada)
1995

Foley, June
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the 'Angel in the House' 
   and the 'Self-Made Man': A Study of Gender, History, and Narrative
New York University
1995

Cook, Ruth Mcdowell
Elizabeth Gaskell's Radical Voice: A Defense of the Single Woman
University of South Carolina
1995

Swenson, Kristine L. 
Treating A Sick Culture: Victorian Fictions of Medical Women
The University of Iowa
1995

Kiesler, Dolores A. 
'Something Specific to Contribute': George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   and the Challenges of Feminism
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1995

Fellows, Susan Glass
But is it Satire? Satire in the Novels of Victorian Women Writers
University of California,  Riverside
1995

Mccuskey, Brian Wessell
Servants' Characters: Below Stairs in the Victorian Novel
The University of Michigan
1995

Warmbold, Marie Elaine
Gaskell's 'North and South' and 'Wives and Daughters': Publishers, 
   Publications, and Audience
New York University
1995

Jennings, Rachel Ann
The Union and Its Limits: Histories, Regions, and Empires 
   in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
The University of Texas at Austin
1995

Park Kyonghwa
Mid-Victorian Racial Discourse in Three Women Writers: Charlotte Bronte, 
   Emily Bronte,  and Elizabeth Gaskell
State University of New York at Stony Brook
1995

Henry, Gary R. 
Reforming Stories,  Reforming Lives: Historical Condition-of-England 
   Novels Between the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867
University of Washington
1995

Abel, Eileen Dolores
'Blessing Left Behind': Self and Social Obligation in the Novels 
   of Elizabeth Gaskell
The University of Tennessee
1995

Feder-Lewis, Sonia Nora
History at Home: Reassessing the Role of Women in the Victorian 
   Historical Novel
University of Minnesota
1996

Taylor, Sandra Lynn
Becoming Conduct.  Victorian Women Writers Negotiating Gender: 
   Charlotte Bronte,  Elizabeth Gaskell,  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 
   George Eliot
Temple University
1996

Lenard, Mary Kathleen
Preaching Pity: Sentimentalism and the Victorian Cultural Discourse 
   of Social Reform
The University of Texas at Austin
1996

Kachur, Robert Metro
Getting the Last Word: Women and the Authoritative Apocalyptic Voice 
   in British Literature, 1845-1900
The University of Wisconsin
1996

Wildt, Katherine Ann
Elizabeth Gaskell's Use of Color in Her Industrial Novels and 
   Short Stories
Saint Louis University
1996

Head, Elizabeth Ann
Rhetoric of Argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' and 'Ruth'
Texas Woman's University
1996

Mclean, Jacqueline Annette Kolosov
Writing Women's Lives: A Study of Victorian Women's Auto/Biography
New York University
1996

Clapp, Alisa Marie
Angelic Airs/Subversive Songs: Music As Cultural Discourse 
   in Victorian Literature and Society
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1996

Park, Hyungji
The Empire Within: Masculinity and Colonial Travel 
   in the Victorian Novel
Princeton University
1996

Grossman, Jonathan H. 
The Art of Alibi: A History of the Novel and the Law Courts
University of Pennsylvania
1996

Najarian, James Hiester
The 'Unmanly' Poet: Keats and the Poetics of Desire
Yale University
1996

Dransfield, Scott Aaron
Narrating the Pathological, 1837-1848: Revolution and 
   Social Discourse in Carlyle, Dickens, and Gaskell
West Virginia University
1996

Childress, Nancy Laverne
Skirting the Law: Victorian Fiction and the Gendering 
   of Judgment
University of Virginia
1996

Masters, Joellen
Bound by Duty: Women and Work in The Victorian Novel
Boston University
1996

Wallace, Lisa Maria
Resisting Women: Victorian Feminine Complaint
University of California,  Irvine
1996

Watt, Anneliese Cooper
Enlightenment Rhetoric in the Fiction of Bronte and Gaskell: 
   A Bakhtinian Dialogic Perspective
The Pennsylvania State University
1997

Wiley, Margaret C.
The Fallen Woman in the Victorian Novel: Dickens, Gaskell, 
   and Eliot
University of Massachusetts
1997

First, Lisa Ann
'The Middle-Class Woman Began to Write': Representations 
   of Storytelling in the Works of Charlotte Bronte, George 
   Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell
Yale University
1997

Findlay, Isobel Mary
Reading for Reform: History, Theology, and Interpretation 
   and the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley
McGill University 
1997

Dodwell, Karen Kay
Making Room: The Production of Fictional Space in the Novels 
   of Gaskell, Eliot, and Oliphant
University of Houston
1998

Walker, Virginia Shields
Dream Shapers: Dream Treatment in Four Female Victorian Novelists: 
   Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and 
   George Eliot
New York University
1998

Easley, Marie Alexis
Victorian Women Writers and the Periodical Press: 
   Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
University of Oregon
1998

Mooney, Jennifer Lynn Mullins
'An Active and Sympathetic Life': Elizabeth Gaskell's Reformist 
   Impulse in 'Mary Barton', 'Ruth', and 'The Life of Charlotte 
   Bronte'
University of Kentucky
1999

Smith, Erin Marie
Trembling on the Boundary: Melodrama and the Victorian Novel, 
   1845-1876
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
1999

Womack, Whitney Ayn
Protesting Bodies: Transatlantic Women's Reform Writing, 
   1788-1872
Purdue University
1999

Murphy, Amy Catherine
'The awful facts': Figurations of the worker in 
   nineteenth-century British literature (Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   James Kay)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
1999

Graziano, Anne Leigh
Extreme measures: Individuation in crisis 
   in the nineteenth-century English novel (Daniel Defoe, 
   Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, 
   George Eliot)
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
1999

Viraraghavan, Chitra
Capital adventures: Gender, Englishness and economics 
   in Victorian fiction (Elizabeth Gaskell, Rudyard Kipling, 
   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, W. Somerset Maugham, A. S. Byatt)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
2000

Stolpa, Jennifer Marie
Revisioning Christian ministry: Women and ministry 
   in 'Agnes Grey', 'Ruth', 'Janet's Repentance', and 
   'Adam Bede' (Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot)
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
2000

Stokes, Peter Malcolm
Getting to know the poor: Early Victorian fiction and social 
   investigation (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   Thomas Carlyle, Henry Mayhew)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
2000

Ruleman, Elizabeth Sayle
The sibling bond in the novels of Austen, the Brontes, Gaskell, 
   and Eliot (Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, 
   Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot)
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
2000

Perry, Julie H.
An empire over her life: The nubile woman's negotiations 
   for personal and political power in the novels of 
   Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Olive Schreiner 
   (South Africa)
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
2000

Menke, Richard Bruce
Victorian interiors: The embodiment of subjectivity 
   in English fiction, 1836-1901 (Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles 
   Dickens, Henry James, George Eliot)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
2000

Graf, Mary Kathryn
Religious paradox in the lives and works of Charlotte Bronte, 
   Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
2000

Crowley, Leslie Anne
'All other faculties must be silent': Victorian motherhood 
   and the divided female self (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 
   Ellen Wood, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   Olive Schreiner, South Africa)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
2000

Starr, Elizabeth Ann
Urban industry and literary work: The construction of authorship 
   in the Victorian social-problem novel, 1845-1866 (Benjamin 
   Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, Charles 
   Dickens, George Eliot)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
2001

Hess, Marcy Ann
Discursive decontamination: Domesticating the great social 
   evil in early Victorian novels (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth 
   Gaskell)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
2001

Garcha, Amanpal Singh
From sketch to novel: Nonnarrative styles in Victorian fiction 
   (Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
2001

Ellison, David Alex
Mobile homes: Volatile interiors and Victorian authority 
   (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell)
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
2001

Dredge, Sarah Caroline
Accommodating feminism: Victorian fiction and the nineteenth-century 
   women's movement (Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, 
   George Eliot)
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
2001

Bentley, Colene M. J.
Constituting political interest: Community, citizenship, 
   and the British novel, 1832--1867 (Charles Dickens, 
   Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot)
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
2001

Wiltshire, Irene
Elizabeth Gaskell and Romanticism: The Romantic Inheritance 
   and her Shorter Works
SALFORD UNIVERSITY (UK)
2002

Ritter, Julia Antonia
Figures of sympathy: Womanly redefinition in the fiction 
   of British women writers (George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, 
   Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
2002

Nash, Julie Elizabeth
Underplots in the drama: Servants and the problem of paternalism 
   in the novels of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
2002

Kagawa, P. Keiko
Bodies in the 'house of fiction': The architecture of domestic 
   and narrative spaces by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell 
   and George Eliot
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
2002

Howgill, Doris Woodrow
Maternal recovery: Repositioning the role of women in works 
   by Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell and 
   Elizabeth Barrett Browning
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
2002

Gerstel, Jennifer Elisabeth
Sexual selection and mate choice in Darwin, Eliot, Gaskell, 
   and Hardy (Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   Thomas Hardy)
UNWERSITY OF TORONTO
2002

Gargano, Elizabeth Ray
Reconstructing school: Educational discourse and Victorian 
   fiction (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles 
   Dickens, George Eliot)
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
2002

Fromer, Julie Ellen
A necessary luxury: Tea in Victorian fiction and culture 
   (Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant)
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
2002

Blair, Emily
Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic aesthetic: 
   Poetry the wrong side out (Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret 
   Oliphant)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
2002

Bhattacharya, Sumangala
Victorian hunger (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry 
   Mayhew)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
2002

Barnes, Christopher Van
Practice, materialism, and the representation of resistance 
   in the British industrial novel (Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens)
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
2002

Thiele, David
Vulgarians at the gate: Status, culture, and adult education 
   in mid-Victorian literature (Geraldine Jewsbury, John 
   Ruskin, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens)
BOSTON COLLEGE
2003

Maurer, Sara L.
Belonging and belongings: Nation, gender, and fictions of 
   ownership in nineteenth-century England and Ireland 
   (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, 
   Maria Edgeworth)
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
2003

Jones, Margaret Faye
Worker angels: Ambivalence toward women's work in Elizabeth 
   Gaskell, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
2003

Hillyer, Frances Sophia
Mrs. Gaskell and Mrs. Stowe: Giving birth to the maternal 
   voice in literature (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth 
   Gaskell)
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
2003

Henkel, Carmen Rose
The Victorian scene (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   George Gissing, Henry James)
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK
2003

Claxton, Michael Jay
The conjurer unmasked: Literary and theatrical magicians, 
   1840-1925 (Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Browning, Mark Twain) 
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
2003

Burkholder-Mosco, Nicole Paige 
Hidden monstrosities: The transformation of woman and child 
   victim(izer)s in nineteenth-century gothic fiction 
   (Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James) 
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
2003

Rudder, Debra Kay
Denying the father's claim: The daughter-condition in four 
   Victorian women of letters (Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth 
   Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot)
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
2004

Malton, Sara Alexandra
False economies: Forgery and other illegitimate issue, 
   1837-1895 (Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth 
   Gaskell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde)
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 
2004

Hanselman, Sarah Amyes
'Exercise for their faculties': Women, class, and work 
   in the writings of four mid-Victorian writers (Hannah 
   Culiwick, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Gaskell, 
   Charlotte Bronte)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
2004

Hanlon, Kerry Elizabeth
Antigone's wake: The legacy of live burial in Victorian 
   literature (Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
2004

Lee, Ying S.
Masculinity and the English working class, 1837-1908 
   (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley)
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON. 2005

Amir, Zubair Syed
'Usurpations and other scandals': Gossip and social climbing 
   in the Victorian novel (George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, 
   Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
2005


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