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Interpreting Issues of Heredity and Inheritance in Holmesian Children through Criminal Anthropology and Degeneration Theory 从犯罪人类学和退化理论解读霍尔姆斯儿童的遗传和继承问题

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/pgju8675

Camilla Del Grazia

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Reviews of The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace by Sean Grass 评《维多利亚叙事中身份的商业化：自传、感觉与文学市场》肖恩·格拉斯

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/yckv8512

K. Nogue

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Degenerative Doctoring: Coercion, Experimentation and Ethics in Arthur Machen’s Gothic Horror 堕落的医疗:亚瑟·梅琴的哥特式恐怖小说中的强迫、实验和伦理

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.46911/bzop1116

Thomas G. Cole II

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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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“Founded on Fact”: Paratextual Politics in Penny Fiction “基于事实”:便士小说中的超文本政治

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/cxkv6018

S. Raine

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Review of Amy Matthewson, Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era 《中国漫画:维多利亚时代的冲击、权力与政治》书评

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/xmlr4843

Weihao Gao

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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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