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Names: Zuroski Jenkins, Eugenia, author.
Title: A funny thing : eighteenth-century literature undisciplined / Eugenia Zuroski.
Description: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial reality, this book is equally delightful and disruptive.”– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024057773 (print) | LCCN 2024057774 (ebook) | ISBN 9781009486231 (hardback) | ISBN 9781009486262 (paperback) | ISBN 9781009486255 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: English literature–18th century–History and criticism. | LCGFT: Literary criticism.
Classification: LCC PR442 .Z87 2025 (print) | LCC PR442 (ebook) | DDC 820.9/005--dc23/eng/20250103
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