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In:Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 19–36

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Going feral

Peter the wild boy among royals, natural philosophers, and the London literati

 | University of Zurich
Published online: 16 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.02gut
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  • Notes
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