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The Story of an Entangled Alliance

Amy Kaplan is Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of The Social Construction of American Realism, she was president of the American Studies Association in 2003–2004 and has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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