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Curious subjects : women and the trials of realism /

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"While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contrac...

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Main Author:	Schor, Hilary Margo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Women in literature. Women and literature > England > History > 19th century. Women > Identity. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. LAW / Public.

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