Issue 11 Editorial
Welcome to Issue 11 of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies.
The articles and reviews in this issue were published on a rolling basis throughout 2022; they demonstr... Read More...
“Seeming Strangeness”: Mina Loy’s Poetics of Disruption and Julia Kristeva’s Semiotic/Symbolic Model
Mina Loy, the “rediscovered and reforgotten” poet of the early twentieth-century American avant-garde (Burke v-vi), wrote poetry that was characterized by strangeness and so unevenly received. Natalya Lusty poi... Read More...
Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace
Both John Knowles’s short story “Phineas” and his novel A Separate Peace are bisected by the same incident: the shattering of the schoolboy athlete Phineas’s leg during a summer war game where narrator Gene “jo... Read More...
Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2020. ISBN 9781541617773. $32. 365pp.
In South to Freedom, Alice Baumgartner explores th... Read More...
Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.
Manthorne, Katherine. Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. University of California Press, 2021. ISBN 9780520355507, £27 (hardback). 352pp.
Art institutions and publishers are cur... Read More...
The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement
The George W. Bush administration’s intervention in Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2007 was decisive and remains undervalued and misunderstood. Throughout this time the US State Department determined American in... Read More...
“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties
The Liberties and The Liberties (1980)
The Liberties in central Dublin has been so called since the 12th century when King Henry II bequeathed land outside the city walls to four manorial jurisdictions. Crucia... Read More...
Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century
Austenfeld, Thomas (Ed.). Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives. Suffolk: Camden House, 2019. ISBN 9781640140288. £71.65 (hardback). 206pp.
In his introduction to Rober... Read More...
Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture
Wills, John. Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture. Johns Hopkins UP, 2019. ISBN 9781421428703. $34.95 (paperback). 296pp.
Published on the cusp of a new console generation and reviewed, here, in a... Read More...
Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership
Sawires-Masseli, Marie-Christin. Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. (Volume 293 of American Studies) ISBN 978-3825369217. €45 (... Read More...