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| Karen Bourrier
VICTORIAN BESTSELLER: THE LIFE OF DINAH CRAIK
(Michigan, 2019) xiii + 246 pp.
Reviewed by Tabitha Sparks on 2021-04-16
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Though her novels are synonymous with domestic values and Christian piety, Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) was not unacquainted with sensation and even scandal.
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| Claire Connolly, ed.
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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