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The Allusionist

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The Dead Wife Is the Perfect Wives

Katie is so obviously bucking against the restrictions of what they can say in their moment. There's a really interesting trend in scholarship recently about sentimental novels pointing out that while the goal of the sentimental narrative is the emotional maturity of our heroine the story becomes deeply boring the second she becomes mature. Mami or death? Marmi or death? That's it. The gothic the dead wife is a sinister presence in the sentimental and we still see this up to the present day like repeated in contemporary culture with Jim Rebecca.

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