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“Prison Is Dull Today”: Prison Libraries and the Irony of Pious Reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Larry E. Sullivan
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Letter from Librarians
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 703 - 706
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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