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12 - The Gothic in American Children’s Literature

from Part III - Genre and Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

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Karen Coats
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
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Central Michigan University
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The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic , pp. 171 - 183
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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