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Select a Research Topic: Literature

Suggested research topics for each academic discipline.

Literature

•    African American literature
•    Alcott, Louisa May
•    Allegory
•    Allusion
•    American Literature
•    American writers
•    Angelou, Maya
•    Austen, Jane
•    Austen, Jane
•    Baldwin, James
•    Becoming a writer
•    Bishop, Elizabeth
•    Book banning
•    Bradstreet, Ann
•    British Literature
•    Brontë Sisters
•    Cather, Willa
•    Censorship
•    Character development
•    Character study
•    Character traits
•    Chaucer
•    Children’s literature
•    Christie, Agatha
•    Cisneros, Sandra
•    Civil disobedience
•    Colonial literature
•    Coming of age
•    Contemporary literature
•    Courage
•    Crane, Stephen
•    Creative writing
•    Critical thinking
•    Cummings, E.E.
•    Death
•    Death and tragedy
•    Deconstruction of a particular work
•    Dickens, Emily
•    Early National Period
•    Eliot, George
•    Eliot, T.S.
•    Emotions
•    Evolution of an author
•    Evolution of literature
•    Faulkner, William
•    Female writers
•    Feminism
•    Fitzgerald, F. Scott
•    Frost, Robert
•    Gender conflicts
•    Good vs. evil
•    Grammar
•    Greek Mythology
•    Hamilton, Alexander
•    Hansberry, Lorraine
•    Hemingway, Ernest
•    Hughes, Langston
•    Identity
•    Idiom
•    Irving, Washington
•    James, Henry
•    Jargon
•    Kerouac, Jack
•    Lewis, C.S. 
•    Libraries
•    Literary criticism 
•    Mailer, Norman
•    Metaphor
•    Miller, Arthur
•    Modernist literature
•    Morrison, Toni
•    Naturalism
•    Novel format
•    Oates, Joyce Carol
•    Orwell, George
•    Perseverance
•    Plath, Sylvia
•    Poet laureate
•    Poetry
•    Political perspectives
•    Power
•    Publication process
•    Reading
•    Realism
•    Redemption
•    Revenge
•    Rich, Adrienne
•    Roman Mythology
•    Romantic literature
•    Roth, Philip
•    Self-reliance
•    Shakespeare
•    Simile
•    Slave narratives
•    Smith, John
•    Social media and communication
•    Social mobility
•    Sociological/political impact of a particular book
•    Steinbeck, John
•    Structure & word use
•    Symbolism
•    Tan, Amy
•    Temptation
•    Theme
•    Tolkein, J.R.R.
•    Transformation
•    Twain, Mark
•    Updike, John
•    Victorian literature
•    Wharton, Edith
•    Wheatley, Phillis
•    Whitehead, Colson
•    Wilder, Thornton
•    Winthrop, John
•    Wollstonecraft, Mary
•    Woolf, Virginia
•    World Literature

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