Narrating Violation: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance”

The several critical interpretations of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story, “Circumstance,” generally acknowledge the presence of sexual violation, but they also tend to de-center it, either glossing over it, or enlisting the nature and implications of the assault to serve other ends. In contra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rita Bode
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2019-10-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15057