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Difficult women, artful lives

"Horton offers a truly original approach to her subjects — sophisticated, probing, daring. Her book is an important contribution to scholarship on both writers and to a rethinking of how we approach writers from the 'contact zone.'." — Sidonie Smith, Binghamton University.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 312 pages

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