Your research paper is to be an eight- to ten-page research paper on a novel chosen from the list below.  The paper should use at least three sources (including the primary source) and follow the most recent MLA style sheet (heading rather than title page; parenthetical documentation; name and page number in upper-right corner).  You can find out more about MLA format and documentation from the organization's web page, www.mla.org, or from its Handbook (available in the bookstore).

Please staple or paperclip your papers; no folders.  Papers should be double spaced (including the Works Cited page), in 12 pt. type, with one-inch margins.

Be sure your paper has a clear thesis (a focused argument which you can prove through a combination of primary and secondary sources) and that your sources are used to support your arguments, not make them in the first place. Quotations and paraphrases should be fully incorporated within the text (introduced and discussed),  and quotations longer than four-typed lines should be in block form (see MLA guide).  Finally, be sure to use (and document) both primary and secondary texts.
 

Paper alternatives:
 

Allende, Isabel	House of Spirits
Atwood, Margaret	Alias Grace
Austen, Jane	Northanger Abbey
Brontë, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Braddon, Elizabeth	Lady Audley's Secret
Erdrich, Louise	Love Medicine
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins	Herland
Jackson, Shirley	The Haunting of Hill House
Morrison, Toni	Song of Solomon
	Beloved
Mukherjee, Bharti	Holder of the World
Naylor, Gloria	Bailey's Cafe
	The Men of Brewster Place
Radcliff, Ann	The Mysteries of Udolfo
Shelley, Mary	The Last Man
Skyhawk	The Fifth Sacred Thing
Tan, Amy	The Kitchen God's Wife
Weldon, Faye	The Life and Loves of a She-Devil