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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 Michael J. Griffin

Michael J. Griffin

Michael Griffin is head of the School of English, Irish, and Communication at the University of Limerick. He writes on eighteenth-century and Irish literatures in English and is currently editing the poems of Oliver Goldsmith for Cambridge University Press.

Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

Michael J. Griffin
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. That revolutions generally end very badly is a truth generally (i... Read More...
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