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Literary Criticism

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Literary Criticism Books in the Library

Open at the Close: literary essays on Harry Potter book cover

Jesmyn Ward: new critical essays book cover art

Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's trans tales and other astounding adventures in sex and gender book cover art

Divine Might: goddesses in Greek myth book cover art

Juliet: the life and afterlives of Shakespeare's first tragic heroine book cover art

The Border and the Line: race, literature, and Los Angeles book cover

Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century book cover art

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies book cover art

The Source of Self-Regard book cover

Beasts at Bedtime: revealing the environmental wisdom in children's literature book cover

Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan's Fiction

Shakespeare and Gender book cover

Poe and the Subversion of American Literature book cover