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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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Review of Rob Breton, The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction 书评罗伯·布雷顿，维多利亚通俗小说的便士政治

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/pozh4404

Nicole C. Dittmer

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Confronting the ‘Real’ Sweeney Todd: a Personal Journey of Discovery 直面“真实的”理发师陶德:个人的发现之旅

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.46911/ukud3206

R. Mack

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Material Girls: Moulin Rouge!’s Neo-Victorian Spectacle and the Real Courtesans of Paris 物质女孩：红磨坊新维多利亚时代的奇观与巴黎真正的宫廷

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.46911/irpl4110

Helena Esser

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John Maxwell’s Copyright Disputes: Manufacturing Cheap Fiction in the Welcome Guest and the Shilling Volume Library 约翰·麦克斯韦尔的版权纠纷：在《迎宾客》和《希林卷图书馆》中制造廉价小说

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.46911/mqtr7637

Jennifer Phegley

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Neglected Novelist or Cruel Necessity? The Forgotten Work of a Sensational Sisterhood 被忽视的小说家还是残酷的必然性?一个耸人听闻的姐妹被遗忘的作品

Victorian Popular Fictions Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.46911/dhrl6389

M. Bath

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