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Medieval readers and writers, 1350-1400 / Janet Coleman.

Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.

The limits of interpretation / Umberto Eco.

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Medieval readers and writers, 1350-1400 / Janet Coleman.

Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.

The limits of interpretation / Umberto Eco.