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Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2021

Matthew Sussman
Matthew Sussman
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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
Form, Ethics, and the Novel
 , pp. 260 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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