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Nina Baym (U. Illinois), "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" (1981) |
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Kathleen de Grave, Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America (publisher's description) |
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Werner Sollors (Harvard U.), " 'Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island'; or, Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of 'America' " |
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