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Yoon Sun Lee

Yoon Sun Lee teaches at Wellesley; her fields include the 18th- and 19th-century British novel, narrative theory, theories of the novel, and realism. icon

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B-Sides: John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera”

By Yoon Sun Lee

In an age of seamless, brazen, total corruption, how should art be? Should it be savage, grim, driven by white-hot rage? Or should it be smiling, gracious ...

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