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The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era
“Swift seems to be identifying with, and forcefully reimagining, this tragic figure from Victorian history.”
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The Historical Implications and Fictional Possibilities of the Hindenberg Disaster
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"Sensitive and powerful The women in em This Is Where the Serpent Lives em are…"
