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Rediscovering Ellen Wood: New Italian Translations 重新发现艾伦·伍德:新的意大利语翻译

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/nbhe2445

Paolo Miccoli

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“To whom shall the outcast prostitute tell her tale!”: Endo/Exo-Writer Perspectives of Nineteenth-Century Sex Workers in Madeleine, An Autobiography and Mary Barton “被抛弃的妓女应该向谁讲述她的故事！”：恩多/外作家对《玛德琳》、《自传》和《玛丽·巴顿》中19世纪性工作者的看法

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/guil7181

Katie Brandt Sartain

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“The mystery of the Myrtle Room”: Reading Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Secret as an Early Female Detective Novel “桃金娘室之谜”——读早期女侦探小说威尔基·柯林斯的《死亡的秘密》

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/yrrl8350

Elizabeth Steere

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Welcome 欢迎

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/dmsx8826

H. Ifill, M. Costantini

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Philistia: Final Chapter (1884) by Grant Allen. Edited with an Introduction and Note by Scott C. Thompson 《非利士人:最后一章》(1884)，作者格兰特·艾伦。斯科特·c·汤普森(Scott C. Thompson)编有引言和注释

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/jayn7052

Thompson Scott

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Review of Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity by Linda K. Hughes 《维多利亚女作家与其他德国：跨文化自由与女性机会》，琳达·K·休斯著

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/rrug9839

Flore Janssen

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“The most accomplished liar in literature”? Uncovering Marie Corelli’s Hidden Early Life "文学史上最有造诣的骗子" ?揭开玛丽·科雷利隐藏的早年生活

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/cwxj9793

Joanna Turner

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Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance 阅读女性感伤小说:一段罗曼史

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/flwg9098

T. Sparks

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The Splendour of Decadence: The Moral Geography of the European South in Victorian Travelogues 颓废的辉煌:维多利亚时代游记中欧洲南方的道德地理

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/mxnr9140

Sebastian Kukavica

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Criminal Bodies in Popular Victorian and Modernist Detective Fiction 流行维多利亚和现代主义侦探小说中的犯罪尸体

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/wayw2876

K. Hart

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