RESEARCH TOPICS (EIIH)

Directions: Scroll through the following list of topics. When you have made your selection, email Ms. Gulbrandsen, indicating your topic of choice. You will receive a reply which either approves your topic or informs you that it has been reserved for another student. In the latter case, you will simply repeat the above process. Topic selection may only be conducted via email, and no topic requests will be honored after midnight, September 15.

Reserved for	Author	Lifespan	Country	Major Work	Genre	Topic/Theme
S. Vitorovic	Alighieri, Dante	1265-1321	Italy	The Divine Comedy	epic	psychological/ spiritual journey
Z. Golden	Austen, Jane	1775-1817	England	Pride and Prejudice	comedy of manners	moral and social graces
	Barbusse, Henri	1874-1935	France	Under Fire (La Feu)	memoir	World War I
	Boccaccio, Giovanni	1313-1375	Italy	The Decameron	novella	Italian society/ values
	Brontë, Charlotte	1816-1855	England	Jane Eyre	memoir	feminism
	Brontë, Emily	1818-1848	England	Wuthering Heights	romance	morality and desire
	Camus, Albert	1913-1960	France	The Stranger	existentialism	irony of the human condition
B. Sparling	Cervantes	1547-1616	Spain	Don Quixote de la Mancha	satirical romance	chivalry
A. Birju	Defoe, Daniel	1660-1731	England	Robinson Crusoe	adventure	desert island
	Dickens, Charles	1812-1870	England	Hard Times	historical fiction	Industrial Revolution
	Disraeli, Benjamin	1804-1881	England	Coningsby	historical fiction	English politics
	Dostoevski, Fyodor	1821-1881	Russia	Crime and Punishment	psychological novel	moral redemption
J. Mikulski	Du Maurier, Daphne	1907-1989	England	Rebecca	mystery/ romance
	Dumas, Alexandre	1802-1870	France	The Three Muskateers	adventure	swashbuckling
	Eliot, George	1819-1880	England	The Mill on the Floss	romance	transgenerational hatred and injustice
S. Peak	Fielding, Henry	1707-1754	England	Tom Jones	comic epic	human nature
D. Siegel	Flaubert, Gustave	1821-1880	France	Madame Bovary	realism	morality and desire
K. Kamaria	Ford, Madox	1873-1939	England	The Good Soldier	historical fiction	good vs. evil
	Forster, E. M.	1879-1970	England	Where Angels Fear to Tread	historical fiction	English and Italian societies
	Fowles, John	1926-	England	The French Lieutenant's Woman	historical fiction	individual freedom
	Gaskell, Elizabeth	1810-1865	England	North and South	historical fiction	social conditions during Industrial Revolution
	Golding, William	1911-	England	Lord of the Flies	psychological novel	nature of evil
	Graves, Robert	1895-1985	England	Goodbye to All That	autobiography	World War I
	Hardy, Thomas	1840-1928	England	Tess of the D'Ubervilles	romance	world governed by ironic fate
	Hesse, Herman	1877-1962	German	Steppenwolf	allegory	individuality vs. social convention (pre-war Germ.)
C. Saurel	Hugo, Victor	1802-1885	France	Les Misérables	melodrama	social condition/ class structure
	Joyce, James	1882-1941	Ireland	Dubliners	psychological novel	picture of the mind and senses
D. Kitchener	Kafka, Franz	1883-1924	Germany	The Trial	historical fiction	dictatorship
	Malory, Sir Thomas	1394-1471	England	Le Morte D'arthur	Arthurian legend	chivalry
	Mann, Thomas	1875-1955	Germany	The Magic Mountain	psychological novel	self-actualization
	Puskin, Alexander	1799-1837	Russia	Eugene Onegin	epic	Crimea
	Rabelais, Francois	1495-1553	France	Gargantua and Pantagruel	fantasy/satire	man and nature
K. Totten	Radcliffe, Ann	1764-1823	England	The Mysteries of Udolpho	gothic/horror
R. Slaughter	Remarque, Erich	1898-1970	Germany	All Quiet on the Western Front	historical fiction	World War I
	Scott, Sir Walter	1771-1832	Scotland	Waverly	historical fiction	Jacobite rebellion
N. Giddins	Shelley, Mary	1797-1851	England	Frankenstein	gothic/horror
P. Johnson	Stevenson, Robert Lewis	1850-1894	Scotland	Treasure Island	adventure	pirates
	Swift, Graham Colin	1949-	England	Waterland	historical fiction	revolution; history
	Swift, Jonathan	1667-1745	Ireland	Gulliver's Travels	satire	English politics and society
	Tolstoi, Lev	1828-1910	Russia	War and Peace	historical fiction	Napolean's invasion of Russia
	Turgenev, Ivan	1818-1883	Russia	Fathers and Sons	realism	familial relationships
R. Mathew	Verne, Jules	1828-1905	France	Round the World in Eighty Days	adventure
P. Ramsi	Walpole, Horace	1717-1797	England	The Castle of Otranto	gothic/horror
M. Gallagher	Wells, H.G.	1866-1946	England	The Island of Dr. Moreau	science fiction	science vs. humanity
	Wilde, Oscar	1854-1900	England	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Esthetic Movement	Victorian ideals
	Woolf, Virginia	1882-1941	England	Orlando	parody/ historical fiction