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Gregory Vargo, ed. Chartist Drama 格雷戈里·瓦尔戈主编宪章戏剧

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2023.0483

Rebecca Nesvet

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Thomas Hardy and the Gothic: Restructuring the Gothic Prison in Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) 托马斯·哈迪与哥特式：《远离疯狂人群》中的哥特式监狱重构（1874）和《德伯家的苔丝》（1891）

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2023.0479

N. N. Nikravesh

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Kimberly Cox, Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901 金伯利·考克斯:《英国文学中的触摸、性与手》，1740-1901年

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2023.0484

Doreen Thierauf

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper, How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris 苏珊娜·法根斯·库珀，《我们将如何生活:与简和威廉·莫里斯在家》

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2023.0485

Sophie Thompson

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Sensation and the City: Charlotte Riddell’s George Geith and the Emergence of the Sensation Genre 《感觉与城市:夏洛特·里德尔的乔治·盖斯与感觉体裁的出现》

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0468

H. Ifill

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s and Dion Boucicault’s Sensational Re-writings across Media: The Octoroon 玛丽·伊丽莎白·布莱登和迪翁·布西柯的《跨媒体的耸人听闻的重写:奥克托伦》

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0471

B. Palmer

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Brief Encounters: Sensation Fiction and the Short Story 《短暂相遇:感觉小说与短篇小说》

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0470

Anne-Marie Beller

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‘Ingratitude! Treachery! Revenge!’: Race, Empire, and Mutinous Femininities in Harriette Gordon Smythies’ A Faithful Woman (1865) “坚忍不拔！背信弃义复仇！”：Harriette Gordon Smythies《一个忠诚的女人》（1865）中的种族、帝国与矛盾的女性主义

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0469

F. Garrido

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‘Half Man, Half Chair’: Disability and the Posthuman Technological Imaginaries of Miserrimus Dexter's Sensational Body in Wilkie Collins' The Law and the Lady (1875) “半人半椅”：残疾与威尔基·柯林斯《法律与女人》（1875）中米斯雷穆斯·德克斯特感性身体的后人类技术想象

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0472

Esther Reilly

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Sensation Fiction: New Directions 感觉小说：新方向

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0467

B. Palmer

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