One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities: Seventeen Papers Read at the Centenary Conference, Groningen, 15-16 January 1986

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G. H. V. Bunt
Rodopi, 1987 - 274 pages

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Douglas Gray Oxford Chaucer and Gentilesse
29
IngaStina Ewbank Leeds Victorian Novels and Feminist Criticism
47
Mike Hannay Free University Amsterdam English Comma Place
81
Frits Stuurman Utrecht Approaching Ought to
127
Ingrid TiekenBoon van Ostade Leiden Negative Do in 18th
157
H Aertsen Free University Amsterdam The Use of Dialect Words
173
H H Dragstra Groningen The Modernity of Modern Chaucer
187
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