Issue 4 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue Jennifer Daly Editorials 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 Articles “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 Articles “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 Articles 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 Articles “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 Articles 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 Reviews 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 Reviews 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 Reviews 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...
Issue 4 Contributors Jennifer Daly Contributors 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...