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An Audacious Argument for Modesty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2021

Michael Bérubé
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PMLA , Volume 135 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 970 - 975
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Copyright © 2020 Michael Bérubé

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