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Machines and Collages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Peter Nicholls
Affiliation:
Peter Nicholls is Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN4 9QN, England.

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Review Essays
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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