Literature as a spur to collective action: The diverse perspectives of nineteenth-and twentieth-century reading groups

Poetics Today

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 335-359

  Long, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 33745637069     PISSN: 03335372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-25-2-335     Document Type: Article

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