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Özkan, H. (2021). Seductive Female Villains and Rhetoricians in The Monk and Zofloya; or, The Moor. In: Zouidi, N. (eds) Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76055-7_17

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