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Barbara M. Benedict

Author of Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry

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Barbara M. Benedict is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Trinity College, Connecticut

Works by Barbara M. Benedict

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (2001) 29 copies

Making the Modern Reader (1996) 10 copies

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Northanger Abbey (1817) — Editor, some editions — 24,925 copies, 459 reviews

Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 (2009) — Contributor — 18 copies

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Gender: female

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