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  • Review: Cook, Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville’s Shorter Fiction and Poetry
  • Review: Robin M. Morris, Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right
  • “A dismal throng of vague spectres”: Reading Knowledge and Identity in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” Through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
  • Review: Kate Fama and Jorie Lagerway, Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture and Film

Author Dearbhaile Houston

Dearbhaile Houston

Dr. Dearbhaile Houston is an early career researcher. She was awarded a PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2022 and currently works as an adjunct Teaching Fellow in the School of English, TCD. Her research focuses on representations of domestic space in contemporary North American and Irish women’s writing.

Review: Kate Fama and Jorie Lagerway, Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture and Film

Dearbhaile Houston
Issue 13 2024, Reviews
Fama, Katherine and Jorie Lagerwey (eds.). Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture and Film. Rutgers University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781978828551. $36.95 (e-book). 240 pp. Situating itself within the... Read More...
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