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Spitting, Sneezing, Smearing

Marjorie Garber

  • Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in 19th-Century Art and Fiction by David Trotter

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Marjorie Garber teaches English at Harvard. Quotation Marks and, with Nancy Vickers, The Medusa Reader are both due from Routledge.

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