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Reanimating the English Historical Novel in the Twenty-First Century – The Case of David Mitchell’s the Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

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|Jul 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2018-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2082-5102 | Journal ISSN: 0081-6272
Language: English
Page range: 203 - 222
Published on: Jul 9, 2019
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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