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Making Tales
The Poetics of Wordsworth's 
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Don H. Bialostosky
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The Native Tongue 
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Developments in English Prose 
Style, 1380-1580 
Janel M. Mueller
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Ideology as Style in the Works of 
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Mary Poovey
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Chicago and the American 
Literary Imagination, 
1880-1920
Carl S. Smith
Chicago's phenomenal growth at the 
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Feydeau, First to Last
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