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Entangled Paths and Ghostly Resonances: Bleak House and Oedipus Rex 纠缠的路径和幽灵的共鸣:荒凉山庄和俄狄浦斯雷克斯

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0378

Robert E. Lougy

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“They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care”: Lewis Carroll Studies, 2004–2017 “他们用顶针寻找，他们小心翼翼地寻找”:刘易斯·卡罗尔研究，2004-2017年

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/DICKSTUDANNU.49.2.0451

E. Guiliano

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Redefining the Urban Philanthropy: Charity and Home in Our Mutual Friend 重新定义城市慈善:我们共同的朋友中的慈善和家

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0086

Lauren Wilwerding

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Regulating Alcohol Consumption and Structuring Life in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend 狄更斯《我们共同的朋友》中的饮酒调控与生活结构

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0107

D. Graber

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Meeting "Me": Charles Dickens's Moments of Self-Encounter 遇见“我”:查尔斯·狄更斯的自我邂逅时刻

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0047

Katherine G. Charles

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Daemonic, Mesmeric, Parasitic: Dickens and Evelyn Waugh 恶魔，催眠，寄生:狄更斯和伊芙琳·沃

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0136

J. Bowen

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Chaucer on the Hearth 《炉边的乔叟

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0001

D. Raybin

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Cranford and the Gothic Everyday 克兰福德和哥特式的日常

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0155

W. Werner

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Recent Dickens Studies: 2016 近期狄更斯研究:2016

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0182

Lanya Lamouria

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"A great retiring wave": Stress, Release, and Subjectivity in Dickens's Prosodic Seas “巨大的退潮”:狄更斯韵律海洋中的压力、释放与主体性

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.49.1.0026

William Kumbier

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