From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic Dara Downey Articles In Georgia Wood Pangborn’s 1911 short story “Broken Glass,” the narrator, a fussy mother living somewhere in rural America, is reproached by a mysterious figure for having scolded her young Irish nursemaid. As ... Read More...
Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870 Dara Downey Reviews “[…] 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).
