The Body in the Library: Affect, Intertextuality, and Literary History in Alice Munro's 'Wenlock Edge'

Alice Munro's densely intertextual "Wenlock Edge" offers an allegory for her engagement with literary history. In the story's uncanny central scene, a naked young woman reads A. E. Housman aloud in a private library for an elderly gentleman, evoking in her exposed condition how o...

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Published inELH Vol. 88; no. 4; pp. 1083 - 1109
Main Author Rivkin, Julie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2021
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