Thank you all for you helpfulness with my research! My essay was completed this past May when I graduated (and my reply here is long overdue) - the resulting essay is now posted on Stetson University's thesis archive at [
www.stetson.edu]. It is entitled: "She-Devil Otherness and the Last Hieroglyph: Reclaiming the Cosmic in Clark Ashton Smith's 'Zothique Cycle'". I contacted this site's owner to see if he would include it in his collections of reviews.
Best,
Daniel