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Sleep and Modern Fiction. / Greaney, Michael.
In: Literature Compass, Vol. 7, No. 6, 06.2010, p. 467-476.

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Greaney, M 2010, 'Sleep and Modern Fiction', Literature Compass, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 467-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00708.x

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Greaney M. Sleep and Modern Fiction. Literature Compass. 2010 Jun;7(6):467-476. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00708.x

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Greaney, Michael. / Sleep and Modern Fiction. In: Literature Compass. 2010 ; Vol. 7, No. 6. pp. 467-476.

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