The winners and runners-up for the 2006 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize have now all been published! The final results are listed below and are also available as a PDF.
The final deadline for entries to the 2007 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize is October 15th, 2007. Details of how to enter are available here.
This year, the Society for Renaissance Studies will also be sponsoring the 2007 Graduate Essay Prize in the Renaissance section. In addition to $200/£100 of free Blackwell books and publication in Literature Compass, the Renaissance section winner will receive a cheque for $200/£100 and have their essay published in the Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies.
Winners
Linking Letters: Translating: Ancient History into Medieval Romance
Alex Mueller, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Medieval Prize)
“Paper Frames”: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and the Seventeenth-Century Country House Poem
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, University of Oxford (Renaissance Prize)
Reading Shakespearean Violence
Gavin Paul, University of British Columbia (Shakespeare Prize)
Female Characters on the Jacobean Stage Defying Type: When is a Shrew Not a Shrew?
Anna Kamaralli, Trinity College Dublin (Seventeenth Century Prize)
‘Where Sydney Cove Her Lucid Bosom Swells’: The Songs of an Imagined ‘Nation’, 1786–1789
Nathan Garvey, University of Sydney (Eighteenth Century Prize)
“Rank Imposture” and “Mimic Goblinry” in Scott’s Doom of Devorgoil: A Genre Politics of National Drama
Dana Van Kooy, University of Colorado (Romanticism Prize)
Sowing Wild Oats: the fallen man in late-Victorian society melodrama
David Lawrence, Birkbeck College, University of London (Victorian Prize)
Immigrant Motherhood and Transnationality in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction
Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero, University of Miami (Twentieth Century Prize)
Exodus as travelling theory: excavating the promised land in the African American imagination
Anna Hartnell, Goldsmiths College, University of London (American Prize)
Runners-up
The Forgotten Greek Books of Elizabethan England
Kirsty Milne, University of Oxford (Renaissance)
Love’s Usury, Poet’s Debt: Borrowing and Mimesis in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Christopher Thurman, University of Cape Town (Shakespeare)
“So Common-Hackneyed in the Eyes of Men”: Banal Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Kate Rumbold, University of Oxford (Eighteenth Century)
Fiction and Autobiography in Mary Hays’ Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796)
Georgina Green, University of Oxford (Romanticism)
