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Threads of Identity: Fashion, Finery, and Performance in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne and Wilkie Collins’s No Name 身份线索：Ellen Wood的《East Lynne》和Wilkie Collins的《No Name》中的时尚、精致和表演

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/lqae9908

Emma Butler-Way

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“Fast lapsing back into barbarism”: Social Evolution, the Myth of Progress and the Gothic Past in Late-Victorian Invasion and Catastrophe Fiction “迅速倒退回野蛮”:维多利亚晚期入侵与灾难小说中的社会进化、进步神话与哥特过去

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/hnuv4351

Ailise Bulfin

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Reappraising Penny Fiction 重新评价便士小说

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/dhbv6145

S. Basdeo, Rebecca Nesvet

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Editor, Reader, and Value for Money in Young Folks 年轻人的编辑、读者和物有所值

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/rqqu4030

Madeline B. Gangnes

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What’s in a Name? Mr. and Mrs. Lovett and the Politics of Penny Fiction 名字里有什么?洛维特夫妇和便士小说的政治

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/kjwl9326

Rebecca Nesvet

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Young America: Dime Novels and Juvenile Authorship 年轻的美国:廉价小说和青少年作家

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/zcyu5206

Laurie Langbauer

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Juana Manso’s Mistérios del Plata (1852) and a Global “Mysteries” Tradition 胡安娜·曼索(Juana Manso)的《mistrios del Plata》(1852)和全球“神秘”传统

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/tcwh4587

S. Basdeo, Luiz F. A. Guerra

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“The Magician of Civilised Life”: The Literary Detective in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Early Penny Fiction “文明生活的魔术师”:玛丽·伊丽莎白·布莱登早期便士小说中的文学侦探

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/lfge1487

Sara Hackenberg

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Review of Jessica Valdez, Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel 杰西卡·瓦尔迪兹《维多利亚时代小说中的新闻策划》书评

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/mvtw4905

Victoria Clarke

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Domestic Plots and Class Reform in Varney the Vampire 《吸血鬼瓦尔尼》中的家庭情节与阶级改革

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/vjxp7684

Brooke Cameron

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