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Lord Byron's Strength
Story and history
Victorian testaments
Jane Austen and narrative authority
The seal of Orestes
Shelley's satire
Flawed texts and verbal icons
Oracles and hierophants
Second stories
Poetics of the feminine
Authority, autonomy, and representation in American literature, 1776-1865
The Voices of African American Women
The achievement of literary authority
Showing like a queen
Political Shakespeare
Tales out of school
A moment's monument
A century of French best-sellers (1890-1990)
Carnival and theater
Flannery O'Connor
Authorship and authority
Affections of the Mind
Loser sons
The allegory of female authority
Searching Shakespeare
Eurykleia and Her Successors
Political Shakespeare
Marianne Moore
Sampling the book
Whitman possessed
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