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Worlds: Mary Wollstone craft CHAPTER 4: Luxury and Utilitarianism: A 177 Reinterpretation of Hannah More's Works CONCLUSION 238 LIST OF WORKS CITED 258 V ABSTRACT Luxuria, one of the seven deadly sins, is usually personified as female in the tradition of Western literature. Although the literary
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