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Mary Burgan is Professor and Chair of English at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she has instituted a graduate specialization in children's literature. She has published extensively on the issue of the family in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and is now working on a book on children and parents in Victorian novels.
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Burgan, M. The question of work: Adolescent literature and the Eriksonian paradigm. Child Lit Educ 19, 187–198 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01128140
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