Sentimental consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the aesthetics of middle-class ownership

American Literary History

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-33

  Merish, Lori ^a  

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EID: 62949123486     PISSN: 08967148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alh/8.1.1     Document Type: Article

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