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Disciplining Girls
Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story

Joe Sutliff Sanders

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Performing China
Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760

Chi-ming Yang

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Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?

Blakey Vermeule

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Piers Plowman
The A Version

edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan

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The Challenges of Orpheus
Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England

Heather Dubrow

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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790

Daniel O'Quinn

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Milton's Latin Poems

translated by David R. Slavitt
introduction by Gordon Teskey

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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865

James L. Machor

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The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor

William V. Spanos

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Romantic Narrative
Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft

Tilottama Rajan

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Faulkner and His Critics

edited by John N. Duvall

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Secret Histories
Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

David Wyatt

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All a Novelist Needs
Colm Tóibín on Henry James

edited and with an introduction by Susan M. Griffin

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Romantic Interactions
Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action

Susan J. Wolfson

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The Neural Sublime
Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts

Alan Richardson

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Muriel Spark
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

edited by David Herman

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Writing for Immortality
Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

Anne E. Boyd

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British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century
An Anthology

edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia

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Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare
Disinheriting the Globe

Paul A. Kottman

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Wielding the Pen
Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century

edited by Anne E. Boyd

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