Embodying Beauty : Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics [1 ed.] 9781135711627, 9780815337324

This study argues that twentieth-century American women writers' textual representations of female beauty generally

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Embodying Beauty : Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics [1 ed.]
9781135711627, 9780815337324

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