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    …in Fiction and Repetition (1982), The Linguistic Moment (1985), The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin (1987), Versions of Pygmalion (1990), Victorian Subjects (1991), Hawthorne and History: Defacing It (1991), Topographies (1995), Reading Narrative (1998), Speech Acts in Literature (2001), and On Literature (2002).

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