Topics for English 9 Theses.

The following topics are suggested for theses in English 9. Men who wish to write on other subjects should consult the instructor.

1. George Eliot's ideas about the art of fiction as recorded in her letters.

2. A study of Carlyle's Sartor Resartus with special reference to ideas.

3. DeQuincey's style compared with that of Landor.

4. The change in George Eliot's style and methods as shown by a comparison between Adam Bede and Daniel Deronda.

5. Dorothea Brooke's problem in Middlemarch and how she solved it.

6. Newman's changes of belief as recorded in the Apologia.

7. A study of the Oxford movement.

8. The relation of Lamb, Hazlitt and DeQuincey to the Romantic movement.

9. A sketch of the more important reviews founded between 1802 and 1824.

10. A sketch of the development of the newspaper in England since 1788.

11. Literary criticism according to the theory and the practice of Jeffrey and according to those of Matthew Arnold.

12. The reforms at Oxford University between 1850 and 1856.

13. Ruskin's Art-teaching.

14. George Meredith's methods as a novelist.

15. Walter Pater's ideal conduct as set forth in Marius the Epicurean.

16. Peacock's criticisms on Romanticism.

17. Macaulay as a man of ideas.

18. Matthew Arnold's religious teaching.

19. A study of the style of any important author read during the second half-year.

20. Hawthorne's Puritanism in its effect upon his fiction.

21. A study of any novel of Hawthorne, Thackeray or George Eliot with special reference either to the treatment of the plot or to the methods of characterization or to both.

22. Was Thackeray a cynic?

23. Carlyle and Macaulay compared as historians.