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IRISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION [VOLUME II], 1780-1830
(Cambridge, 2020) xvi + 439 pp.
Reviewed by Patrick R. O'Malley on 2021-04-09
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Quick: what happened in Irish literary history in 1780? How about 1830? One of the challenges of conceptualizing Irish literature in terms of periods (romantic, for example, or Victorian) is that the customary narratives of cultural and political development don't quite apply: 1798 might have more salience than 1789, 1829 more than 1837.
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THE ONE, OTHER, AND ONLY DICKENS
(Cornell, 2018) xxv + 216 pp.
Reviewed by Wendy Veronica Xin on 2021-02-22
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Familiar as we might already be with Boz the social commentator and master-plotter, this book reveals an "Other" Dickens lurking silently in his novels all along, if only we could hear him.
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