Author Alex McDonnell

Alex McDonnell

Alex McDonnell completed a PhD on representations of Native Americans in nineteenth-century American fiction at Durham University in November 2016. In 2019 his article “'In Constant Fellowship with One Unseen': Negotiations with the Native Other and American National Identity in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona" was published by Journal of the Southwest. In 2017 he won the Adam Matthew Digital Essay Prize for his essay "Satire, Symbolism and the 'Working Through' of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man." In June 2014 he organised a conference on American Imperialism and National Identity at St Aidan’s College in Durham University. His current research interests include but are not limited to neoliberalism, science fiction, and nineteenth-century literature.

Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man

Alex McDonnell

Articles, Issue 10 2020-21

Although there have been powerful attacks on what Hershel Parker nominates as the “standard line of interpretation” (x) regarding Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man, what could we gain from going against the ... Read More...

"The Product of a Spoiled America": Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man