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Literacy and Preservation in “The Death and Burial of Cock Robin” 《知更鸟的死与葬》中的识字与保存

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0003

Megan Lewis

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Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire 帝国野兽寓言:动物、世界主义和大英帝国

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0258

L. Shires

引用次数: 1

Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature 远离所有传染:十九世纪晚期文学中的细菌理论、疾病和人类接触的困境

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0250

J. Fuller

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Editors’ Note 编者注

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0001

Maria K. Bachman, Albert D. Pionke

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Visualizing Mutuality: Teaching / Networks in Our Mutual Friend 可视化互动性:在我们共同的朋友中教学/网络

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0166

M. Celeste

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The Digital Dickens Notes Project 数字狄更斯笔记项目

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0210

A. Gibson, A. Grener, F. Goodenough, Scott Bailey

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Pigtails, Prostrations, and People on Teapots: Graphic Satire and the British Encounter with Things Chinese, 1792–1842 辫子、跪拜和茶壶上的人:图形讽刺和英国人与中国事物的接触，1792-1842

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0086

J. Sample

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Going a Step Further Than Open Access and Open Source: COVE and the Promise of Open Assembly 比开放存取和开源更进一步:COVE和开放组装的承诺

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0198

D. Felluga

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“Behold, we know not anything”: Tennyson’s Epistemological Crisis in In Memoriam “看，我们什么都不知道”:丁尼生在《追忆》中的认识论危机

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0055

Scott Rogers

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Ten Letters by John Stuart Mill 约翰·斯图亚特·密尔的《十封信

Victorians Institute Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0238

R. Crisp

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