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Recognizing Status in Charles Dickens's Hard Times 狄更斯艰难时期的身份认同

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.48.1.0145

Albert D. Pionke

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Anticipated Ends, Atonement, and the Serialization of Gaskell's North and South 预期的结局、赎罪与盖斯凯尔的《南方与北方》连载

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.48.1.0231

Elizabeth Coggin Womack

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Dickens, Hogarth, and Artistic Perception: The Case of Nicholas Nickleby 狄更斯、贺加斯与艺术感知:尼古拉斯·尼克尔比的案例

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.48.1.0059

Andrew N. Mangham

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"Nothing Truer Than Physiognomy": Body Semiotics and Agency in Charles Dickens's "Hunted Down" (1859) “没有什么比面相更真实”:查尔斯·狄更斯《追捕》(1859)中的身体符号学和能动性

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.48.1.0167

E. Kronshage

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Finding Form in David Copperfield: The Architectural Installment 在大卫·科波菲尔中寻找形式:建筑分期

Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.48.1.0121

D. Siegel

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