English Literature Research Assignment

Topic Proposal Sheet

for the Research Paper

1.

What topic do you intend to cover in your historical context research paper on one of

the writers covered this semester? Mental Health

2.

What is your interest in this topic? The few pieces I recently read from him were

interesting. It makes me wonder did he suffer from mental health. None of his work has happy

endings. We know that a lot of his work were based on his wives; partic

ularly Emma after she

died.

3.

What major points do you intend to cover? Thomas Hardy’s novels all target tragic

characters struggling, tormented. The characters seem to all be fighting against their passions

and social circumstances. Did he suffe

r from mental illness hence why his work is negative

rather than

positive?

4. List at least three

articles that you intend to use for your research.

https://www.futurele

arn.com/courses/literature/0/steps/12590

https://spartacus

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educational.com/Jhardy.htm

https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0105192

Austin, Linda M. “Reading Depression in Hardy's ‘Poems of 1912

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13.’” Victorian Poetry, vol. 36,

no. 1, 1998, pp. 1

–

15. JSTOR,

www.jstor.org/stable/40003629

.

Working Thesis:

“Is there a war in the minds

of artist and their creativity” a research study

through the work of Thomas Hardy manic depression tendencies.

Topic Proposal Sheet for the Research Paper

1. What topic do you intend to cover in your historical context research paper on one of

the writers covered this semester? Mental Health

2. What is your interest in this topic? The few pieces I recently read from him were

interesting. It makes me wonder did he suffer from mental health. None of his work has happy

endings. We know that a lot of his work were based on his wives; particularly Emma after she

died.

3. What major points do you intend to cover? Thomas Hardy’s novels all target tragic

characters struggling, tormented. The characters seem to all be fighting against their passions

and social circumstances. Did he suffer from mental illness hence why his work is negative

rather than positive?

4. List at least three articles that you intend to use for your research.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/literature/0/steps/12590

https://spartacus-educational.com/Jhardy.htm

https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0105192

Austin, Linda M. “Reading Depression in Hardy's ‘Poems of 1912-13.’” Victorian Poetry, vol. 36,

no. 1, 1998, pp. 1–15. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40003629.

Working Thesis: “Is there a war in the minds of artist and their creativity” a research study

through the work of Thomas Hardy manic depression tendencies.