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Issue 4 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue

Jennifer Daly
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In November 2014, the IAAS welcomed postgraduate and early-career scholars from across Ireland and the UK to Trinity College Dublin for the annual postgraduate symposium. Unlike previous IAAS events, the sympos... Read More...

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

Rachael Alexander
Articles
Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s Rachael Alexander University of Strathclyde   Now, it would be an overstatement to insist that the art of living is exclusively un... Read More...

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

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

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

Katie Ahern
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“To Make For Myself a Person”: Immigrant Identities in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers Katie Ahern University College Cork Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American writer, most popular in the 1920s, and be... Read More...

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

Tim Groenland
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The Poetics of the Sentence: Examining Gordon Lish’s Literary Legacy Tim Groenland Trinity College Dublin In September 2008, Gary Lutz, author of several collections of short fiction, delivered a lectu... Read More...

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

Laura Rose Byrne
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“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita. Laura Rose Byrne Trinity College Dublin In a 1967 interview with his former student and future an... Read More...

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

Sarah Cullen
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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 are covered by the term “American Studies,” including histor... Read More...

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

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

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

Ann Patten
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Review: Dara Downey, American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age Ann Patten   Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted something exceptional about U.S. horror.  A common position h... Read More...

Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence

Gillian Groszewski
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Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence Gillian Groszewski Lee M. Jenkins’s The American Lawrence is an arresting book. The title is printed in a stylised font that invokes the ‘Wanted’ posters of J... Read More...
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Issue 4 Contributors

Jennifer Daly
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Katie Ahern is a PhD candidate in the School of English, University College Cork. Her research interests include the works of Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and Louise Erdrich. She is a Postgraduate and Early ... Read More...
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