Author James Hussey

James Hussey

James Hussey is an IRC Postgraduate Scholar and PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin. He works on Nathaniel Hawthorne and individualism, with a special interest in how literature of the American Renaissance was formed and influenced by Jacksonian political and social ideologies.

Hawthorne’s “Dangerous Soul” and Jacksonian Individualism: Artistic Isolation in Fanshawe and “The Artist of the Beautiful”

James Hussey

Articles

In his seminal American Renaissance, Frances Otto Matthiessen points to the development by Nathaniel Hawthorne of tragic elements of character, noting his exploration of the “subterranean history of the America... Read More...

Two Roads Diverged

A Backward Glance: My Quarter Century in the IAAS

(Dis)Connections: Civil Rights and Discrimination in America and Northern Ireland

Reading Transatlantically in the Era of Trump

But It Is Your Problem

Lonely, But Not Alone: Studying America in Ireland in the Time of COVID-19

Some Comments on Irish American Studies

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

Review: Jesús Blanco Hidalga, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Review: Eileen T. Lundy and Edward J. Lundy, eds., Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East

Review: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

Review: Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds., European Perspectives on John Updike

Hawthorne’s “Dangerous Soul” and Jacksonian Individualism: Artistic Isolation in Fanshawe and “The Artist of the Beautiful”