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Debra Gettelman

Debra Gettelman is associate professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is completing a book on the reader’s imagination and the Victorian novel and has published work in ELH, Novel, Victorian Literature and Culture, and other venues. icon

B-Sides: Virginia Woolf’s “Flush”

By Debra Gettelman

Woolf’s spin on the genre of children’s fiction about animals is valuable because of its comedy, not despite it.

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