Through a Glass Darkly: Aquarium Colonies and Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Marine Monstrosity

Gothic Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 305-327

  Stott, Rebecca ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 30244470552     PISSN: 13627937     EISSN: 2050456X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/GS.2.3.4     Document Type: Article

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