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Review: Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings, eds. Kevin McDonnell and R. Kent Rasmussen

Clair A. Sheehan

Review: Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings. Edited by Kevin MacDonnell and R.Kent Rasmussen (Bloomsbury, 2016) Buy here. Clair ... Read More...

Contributors – Issue 5

Miranda Corcoran received her PhD in English from University College Cork, where she also teaches American literature. Her research interests include ... Read More...

Editorial: Issue 4

In November 2014, the IAAS welcomed postgraduate and early-career scholars from across Ireland and the UK to Trinity College Dublin for the annual pos... Read More...

Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s

Rachael Alexander

Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s Rachael Alexander University of Strathclyde Now, it would be an over... Read More...

“No such thing as a ‘Canadian'”: Memory, Place, and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Stories

“No such thing as a ‘Canadian’”: Memory, Place, and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Stories Kate Smyth Trinity College Dublin ... Read More...

“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers

“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers Katie Ahern University College Cork Anzia Yezierska was... Read More...

The Poetics of the Sentence: Examining Gordon Lish’s Literary Legacy

The Poetics of the Sentence: Examining Gordon Lish’s Literary Legacy Tim Groenland Trinity College Dublin In September 2008, Gary Lutz, autho... Read More...

“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita

Laura Rose Byrne

“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita. Laura Rose Byrne Trinity College Dublin ... Read More...

WTM Riches Essay Prizewinner: The Search for a Mother in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

The WTM Riches Essay Prize was established in 2004 to recognise and reward high-quality work being done by younger scholars in many of the areas that ... Read More...

Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens

Karolina Vancurová

Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Karolina Vancurová Charles University, Prague Edward Clarke’s Th... Read More...

Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

Review: Dara Downey, American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age Ann Patten Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted s... Read More...

Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence

Gillian Groszewski

Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence Gillian Groszewski Lee M. Jenkins’s The American Lawrence is an arresting book. The title is print... Read More...

Contributors – Issue 4

Katie Ahern is a PhD candidate in the School of English, University College Cork. Her research interests include the works of Edith Wharton, Anzia Yez... Read More...

Editorial: Issue 3

Editorial Stephen Matterson and Alex Runchman We apologize for the belatedness of this issue of IJASonline. This is in part due to circumstances wit... Read More...

Fig. 1, Paris, Vegas

Last Vegas?

Last Vegas? Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) This article, and the research out of which it springs, has a number of points of origin; i... Read More...

ALAN GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURE: Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era

Robert A. Strong

ALAN GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURE Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era Robert A. Strong Washington and Lee University April 2... Read More...

“This is said on tiptoe”: Stanley Cavell and the Writing of Philosophy

“This is said on tiptoe”: Stanley Cavell and the Writing of Philosophy Áine Mahon University College Dublin Introduction So we are here, knowing ... Read More...

David Foster Wallace and the Voices of a Fragmented Nation

“E Unibus Pluram”: David Foster Wallace and the Voices of a Fragmented Nation

Clare Hayes-Brady

“E Unibus Pluram”: the short story and the voices of a fragmented nation. Ignite article, IJAS online 2 One of the truisms of American studies seems... Read More...

“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade

“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade Jennifer Daly Trinity College Dublin ... Read More...

Real Journeys of the Imagination: Carson McCullers and Ireland

Real Journeys of the Imagination: Carson McCullers and Ireland Rebecca Pelan University College Dublin American author Carson McCullers visited Ire... Read More...

Review: A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes

Clare Hayes-Brady

Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes (Oxford: OUP, 2012) Clare Hayes-Brady University College Dublin A blu... Read More...

Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. (Princeton and Oxford: Prin... Read More...

Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960

Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010) Hanna Bingel Que... Read More...

Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).

Review: Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition

Donna Maria Alexander

Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López (eds), Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition Donna Maria Alexander University Col... Read More...

Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction

Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) $135 262 pp Alex Runchman Trini... Read More...

Contributors – Issue 3

Donna Maria Alexander Jennifer Daly Dara Downey Clare Hayes-Brady Áine Mahon Philip McGowan Rebecca Pelan Alex Runchman Robert... Read More...

Editorial: Issue 2

Editorial Philip Coleman Welcome to the second issue of IJASonline, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. This ... Read More...

emory elliot

Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009)

Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009): Compiled and introduced by Louise Walsh

Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’

Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’

Ernest Hemminway

“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm

“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm

Don DeLillo

Rubbish: Don DeLillo’s Wastelands

Margaret Robson

DeLillo’s Underworld is one of the most celebrated of all modern American novels, and perhaps the most complex. This complexity is a product of its extraordinarily precise yet oblique chronological structure, which, in its attempt to account for the entire second-half of the twentieth-century, has challenged all its readers, confused many of them, and alienated some.

Frida Kahlo

“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo

“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline

David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline

robert lowell

[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise

Gillian Groszewski

[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry

bill bojangles robinson

Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary

“Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary”: Racial Representation and Artistic Experimentation in Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s Stormy Weather Performance

Anne Tyler

Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold

Cecilia Donohue

Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

school

What if the Government Schooling Campaigns (1820s-1920s) to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?

Michael C. Coleman

What if the Government Schooling Campaigns to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?

Contributors – Issue 2

Piya Chatterjee is an Associate Professor of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Women’s Studies at University of California, Riv... Read More...

Imagined America: Walt Whitman’s Nationalism in the First Edition of Leaves of Grass

Nathanael OReilly

Nathanael O'Reilly Critics often describe Walt Whitman as America’s national poet, and many have concerned themselves with how Whitman came to hold... Read More...

“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America

“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America

Invented Irishness: The Americanization of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor

Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh

Invented Irishness: The Americanization of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor

“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance

“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance

“Why Don’t You Write About America?”

Victoria Kennefick

Frank O'Connor's Representations of Relations between Ireland and America

Irish republicans in interwar New York

Irish republicans in interwar New York

Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years

Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years

american ruins

Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)

Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)

Review: Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time

Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)

Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry

Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry

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Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh

Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

Review: Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Contributors – Issue 1

Johannah Caitriona Duffy is an AHRC Research Fellow in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is currently w... Read More...

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