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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 Rachel Sykes

Rachel Sykes

Rachel Sykes is Lecturer in Contemporary American Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her first book, The Quiet Contemporary American Novel, is forthcoming with Manchester University Press (2018) and she has recent articles in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Those Same Trees: Narrative Sequence and Simultaneity in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Novels

Rachel Sykes
Articles, Issue 6 2017
In 2014, the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s fourth novel, Lila, completed a trilogy of books set in the small fictional town of Gilead, Iowa.  The Pulitzer-prize-winning Gilead (2004) first tells the story... Read More...
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