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David Meredith’s ‘Affair with America’: Re-reading Helen Midgeley in George Johnston’s My Brother Jack 大卫·梅雷迪思的《美国风流韵事》:重读乔治·约翰斯顿的《我的兄弟杰克》中的海伦·米吉利

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1221621

James Dahlstrom

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Its Prohibitive Cost: The Bicycle, the New Woman and Conspicuous Display 它的禁止性成本：自行车、新女性和引人注目的展示

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1221620

E. Chen

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Unwomanly Intellect: Melancholy, Maternity, and Lesbianism in Olive Moore's Spleen 非女性知识分子：奥利弗·摩尔《脾脏》中的忧郁、母性和女同性恋

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1221623

J. Wagner

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Prefaces to the Novel: Robinson Crusoe and Novelistic Form 小说前言:鲁滨逊漂流记与小说形式

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244907

J. Frow

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Elsewhere, Elsewhen and Otherwise: The Wild Lives of Radios in the Worlds of Philip K. Dick 其他地方，其他地方和其他地方:菲利普·k·迪克世界里收音机的狂野生活

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244915

Adam Hulbert

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The Prosaic and Provincial History of an Epic Revolution 一场史诗革命的平淡和乡土历史

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244912

Yi Zheng

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Novel Worlds 小说的世界

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244906

Vanessa Smith

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Novel-Worlds: Tracing the Ripples in Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City 小说世界:探寻多丽丝·莱辛《四门之城》的涟漪

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244913

S. Barnes

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Village Worlds: Yan Lianke’s Villages and Matters of Life 《村落世界:阎连科的村落与人生大事

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244917

Xuenan Cao

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Articles of War: Subjects and Objects Aboard the Nineteenth-Century Naval Novel 战争条款:19世纪海军小说中的主体和客体

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2016.1244910

D. Cook

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