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A kiss from Thermopylae : Emily Dickinson and law /

Born into a family of attorneys, Dickinson absorbed law at home. She employed legal terms and concepts regularly in her writings, and her metaphors grounded in law derive much of their expressive power from a comparatively sophisticated lay knowledge of the various legal and political issues that we...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guthrie, James R. (James Robert)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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