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  • “Her Happy Solitary Life”: Singleness and Queering the Norm in “Martha’s Lady” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness
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  • Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown

Author Laura Rose Byrne

Laura Rose Byrne

Laura Rose Byrne is a second year doctoral candidate at Trinity College Dublin, currently writing a thesis entitled “Nabokov’s Lolita and the Mythologies of Femininity,” exploring the novelist’s uses and abuses of various cultural archetypes in the construction of his female characters. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy from NUI Maynooth and an MA in Gender and Writing from University College Dublin.

“She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita

Laura Rose Byrne
Articles, Issue 4 2015
In a 1967 interview with his former student and future annotator, Alfred Appel, Vladimir Nabokov announced, “Philosophically, I am an indivisible monist” (Strong Opinions 73). The author was responding to a lin... Read More...
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