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Melancholy at a Crossroads: Effeminate Men in Norwegian Fin-de-siècle Literature

Kjersti Bale
Scandinavian Studies, September 2021, 93 (3) 357-382; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.93.3.0357
Kjersti Bale
University of Oslo
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