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Editor's Column: Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Patricia Yaeger
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PMLA , Volume 126 , Issue 2 , March 2011 , pp. 305 - 326
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