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This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter’s critical and intertextual engagements with the past. Examining a broa......more
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An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most inf......more
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was a key figure in the history of both women’s poetry and fin-de-siècle poetics. Coleridge, th......more
When Where the Wild Grape Grows was published in 2005 by the University of Massachusetts Press, it was the first book-le......more
The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights Originally published in 2005, WheretheWi......more
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