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Arrested Development: Characterisation, the Newspaper and Anthony Trollope 发展受阻:人物塑造，报纸和安东尼·特罗洛普

Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474344.003.0003

Jessica R. Valdez

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‘These Acres of Print’: Charles Dickens, the News and the Novel as Pattern “印刷的土地”:查尔斯·狄更斯，新闻和小说的模式

Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474344.003.0002

Jessica R. Valdez

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‘The End is No Longer Hidden’: News, Fate and the Sensation Novel 《结局不再隐藏》:新闻、命运与轰动小说

Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474344.003.0004

Jessica R. Valdez

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Israel Zangwill, or ‘The Jewish Dickens’: Representing Minority Communities in Novel and Newspaper Israel Zangwill，或“犹太狄更斯”:在小说和报纸中代表少数民族社区

Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474344.003.0005

Jessica R. Valdez

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