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Sick Girls and Sick Titles

Titles and Their Relationship to the Mode of Representation

Mette Bøgh Jensen
Scandinavian Studies, October 2024, 96 (4) 1-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.96.4.1
Mette Bøgh Jensen
Mette Bøgh Jensen is a senior researcher and curator at Art Museums of Skagen in Denmark. Her research focuses on the Skagen Painters and sick girls in Nordic art in the 19th century.
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