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Alternative Literacies and Language in Bleak House and Great Expectations 《荒凉山庄》和《远大前程》中的另类文学和语言

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0277

Tatiana Nunez

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Caught in Time: Performance and Spectatorship in Our Mutual Friend 时间的束缚:《我们共同的朋友》中的表演和观众

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0295

Keith Easley

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Counter-Didactic Pickwickians Counter-Didactic有特殊意义的

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0207

Amir Tevel

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Ghosts of Abolition in Oliver Twist 《雾都孤儿》中废除奴隶制的幽灵

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0232

Anthony Teets

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Dickens Matters? A Collaborative Story About Our Spring 2019 Dickens Seminar Told in Six Parts 狄更斯很重要吗?关于我们2019年春季狄更斯研讨会的合作故事，分六部分讲述

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0363

C. Reitz, B. Sherman, Sean Nortz, Emily Foster, Stephanie Montalti, Christian Lewis

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Queer Circuits: Dynamic Forms, Description, and Teleoskepticism in Dickens's Great Expectations 古怪的回路:狄更斯《远大前程》中的动态形式、描写与心灵感应论

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0258

Virginia Leclercq

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New George Eliot Studies: From Time's Up to the Anthropocene 新乔治·艾略特研究:从时代到人类世

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.50.2.0389

A. Carroll

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The Dickensian George Eliot 狄更斯式的乔治·艾略特

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0048

G. Levine

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Life in Dead Things: Unreading Memorials in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles 死物中的生命:托马斯·哈代《德伯家的苔丝》中未读的纪念

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0106

Julia Clarke

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Great Expectations and the Evolution of Women 《远大前程与女性的进化

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0001

R. P. O’Malley

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