This study proposes first, to investigate the biographical and literary influences that led James to attempt the ghost story; second, to examine the stories themselves in light of James's theory of fiction, and to compare them with the tales of other writers; last, to consider James's ghosts as dramatized unseen realities which strongly affect human experience.

All of the aforementioned factors--love, money, the abuse of confidence, the guilt growing out of it, the response of the victim--contribute to the moral view constantly evolving towards an ultimate statement in the three novels of James's maturity. This thesis will attempt to explicate in full that statement. For James's theme of abuse of confidence, together with all of its elements, was in itself only the vehicle of a finely attuned moral awareness.

The purpose of the study at hand is to follow up the suggestions in Winters's observations and Booth's thesis, and to examine both the extent and the nature of money and other financial considerations as these matters appear in the four most important novels of James's early period.

This study concerns itself primarily with James Baldwin's treatment of the attitudes he thinks most white people hold. He desires to make the white man conscious of his attitude towards Negroes and to analyze the reasons for them, and incorporates his ideas into setting, characterization, and plot.

Historians and political scientists have written prodigiously on the long, versatile, and at times brilliant political career of James Madison, who, as a politician from Virginia, prolific writer, and an incisive thinker, became Thomas Jefferson's secretary of state, and president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Over the years, however, there has been little consensus in American historiography concerning the effectiveness of Madison's career as president. This widespread divergence of opinion among scholars relating to his presidency is largely centered on the seemingly complex nature of Madison.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / The purpose of this thesis, "Agrarianism in James Fenimore Cooper," is to examine the social criticism of Cooper, as expressed chiefly in his novels, with the hope of showing that Cooper's mature political philosophy springs from the Jeffersonian branch of the Federalists and supports the social, cultured leadership of the wealthy agrarian rather than a business autocracy, the basic principle of Hamiltonian Federalism. To effect the purpose of this thesis requires evidence from Cooper's books that he accepted the main tenets of the Federalists at the time when they established the American Republic, but that he followed the landed branch of the Federalists rather than the business one in the schism that occurred in working out the problem of the new nation. To trace Cooper's views that root in Federalism involves a consideration of the kind of government that he approves. In discussing governments, Cooper divides them into governments of men and governments of law or principle. The governments of men divide into those in which the one, the few, or the many control the affairs of the nation. To explain Cooper's meaning, an absolute monarchy may represent the rule of the one; an oligarchy, the rule of the few; a certain limited monarchy and democracy, the government of laws, Cooper's conclusions on the republics of Italy, and more particularly upon the Venetian polity, as shown in The Bravo, show his opinions of the government of the few, and, incidentally, of the government of the one. His theories on England and the United States clarify his views on the governments of law, and his comments on the common-man majority of Jackson's time and later, illumine his conceptions of the government of the many [TRUNCATED].

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This thesis examines the influence of Latin literature and values on the fiction of Henry James, with particular reference to the authors who wrote under Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. The similarities between their works and his are analysed in terms of structure, style, setting, plot, theme, imagery, characterisation and didacticism by close readings and comparisons of the texts. The writings to be compared are Horace's Odes with James's “Daisy Miller,” Virgil's Aeneid with The Ambassadors, and the histories of Livy and Tacitus with The Golden Bowl. In the end, this dissertation attempts to demonstrate how the morals that James sought to commend to his young and burgeoning America were based on those of the ancient Augustan age, a period that he may have believed bore a strong resemblance to his own times, while he may also have felt that emulation and appropriation of these canonical classical writers could help him to become a classic himself. The results of this enquiry are offered as a contribution to both classical reception studies and Jamesian studies.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1983. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-194). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 294-297).