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Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar s newest collaboration, Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader, is the first collection to trace the historical evolution of feminist writing about literature in English from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century."

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adult
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epic · 997 pages

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