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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
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Author Seán Travers

Seán Travers

Seán Travers is a third-year English PhD student at University College Cork. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History of Art and a Master’s Degree in English: Modernities. Her PhD thesis examines innovative representations of trauma in popular culture and postmodern literature.

Empty Constructs: The Postmodern Haunted House in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves

Seán Travers
Articles, Issue 7 2018
Special Mention in the 2016 WTM Riches Essay Prize   According to Dale Bailey, “since Poe first described the House of Usher in 1839, the motif of the haunted house has assumed an enduring role in the ... Read More...
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