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Recent Dickens Studies: 2017 近期狄更斯研究:2017

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0130

Susan E. Cook

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The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot 乔治·艾略特的原始环境主义的兴起

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0081

Sophie Christman

引用次数: 2

Dickens’s Anonymous Margins: Names, Network Theory, and the Serial Novel 狄更斯的佚名边缘:名字、网络理论与系列小说

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0020

A. Grener, Isabel Parker

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引用次数: 5

The Emergence of Emergence: G. H. Lewes, Middlemarch, and Social Order 《涌现的出现:g.h.刘易斯、米德尔马契与社会秩序》

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-03-15 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.50.1.0066

D. Bivona

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The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit 手工景观:狄更斯《马丁·丘兹莱维特》中的手工劳动与伊甸园的建构

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0330

C. Wilkinson

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引用次数: 2

Getting Bored with Hard Times 对艰难时期感到厌倦

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0402

Kailana Durnan

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引用次数: 1

“This Schoolroom is a Nation”: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens “这间教室是一个国家”:颠覆狄更斯的教理问答方法

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0279

Eric G. Lorentzen

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引用次数: 2

“’Tis the Mind That Sees Things”: Flexible Epistemology as Social Reform in Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late to Mend “看到事物的是心灵”:查尔斯·里德《亡羊补牢，犹未晚》中作为社会改革的灵活认识论

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0429

K. Pond

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“Drop the Curtain”: Astonishment and the Anxieties of Authorship in Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz “放下窗帘”:博兹的《查尔斯·狄更斯的小品》中作者身份的惊讶与焦虑

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0249

Christina Jen

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Neither High-Church, Low-Church, nor No-Church: Religious Dissatisfaction and Dissent in Bleak House 不是高教会，不是低教会，也不是无教会:《荒凉山庄》中的宗教不满与异议

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.2.0349

C. Dickinson

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