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Strindberg’s Game of Normality: The Criminal, Visual Culture, and Normalization at the Fin de Siècle

Gustaf Marcus
Scandinavian Studies, June 2020, 92 (2) 167-195; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.92.2.0167
Gustaf Marcus
The Sorbonne
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