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Books on the Move

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Leah Price
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London, June 2014. I'm queuing outside a downtown church behind a six-foot-tall man whose neck juts into my view every time the lights change at the corner. He's craning for a white van whose walls are lined with hardcovers and paperbacks. Its sponsor, the Quaker Homeless Action Committee, helps readers who are sleeping rough reclaim a right that many citizens take for granted: book borrowing.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 690 - 696
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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