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About Dara Downey
Dara Downey is a visiting lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and the Trinity Access Programme. She is editor of The Irish Gothic Journal (online). She is author of American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (2014), and co-editor of Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (with Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker, 2016). Her research focuses on domesticity in American gothic, and she is currently working on a literary biography of Shirley Jackson, as well as a longer-term project on servant figures in American gothic.
From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic
Posted inArticles Issue 9 2020

From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic

Posted by Dara Downey
Review: Desirée Henderson, <i>Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).
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