Faculty towers the academic novel and its discontents

In the days before there were handbooks, self-help guides, or advice columns for graduate students and junior faculty, there were academic novels teaching us how a proper professor should speak, behave, dress, think, write, love, and (more than occasionally) solve murders. If many of these books are...

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Tác giả chính: Showalter, Elaine
Tác giả khác: Elaine Showalter
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English
Được phát hành: Oxford,[Philadelphia] Oxford University Press,University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
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