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Toby Beauchamp is associate professor of gender and women’s studies and affiliate faculty in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

In Marvel's comic book canon, the Silver Surfer has traditionally been depicted as a male character named Norrin Radd. He was created by Jack Kirby in 1966 and first appeared in Fantastic Four #48.

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