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  • “‘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
  • Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man
  • Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

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
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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...
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