Teaching the Terrible; or, Taking William Charles White's Orlando; or, Parental Persecution, a Tragedy, to School.

Utterly amateurish and verbally clubfooted, inhabited by characters who behave in hilariously tragic ways and speak in tormented sentences, William Charles White's Orlando nonetheless: addresses changing relations between parents, children, husbands, wives, and friends; provides a useful contrast to...

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Publicado en:Early American Literature Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 621 - 633
Autor principal: Lewis, Paul
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of North Carolina Press 2019
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