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  • Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man
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  • Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America

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
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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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