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An analysis of victorial women writers this pathbreaking book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by sandra gilbert and susan gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that the personal was the political the sexual was the textual the classic argument for a women s literary tradition scott heller.
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