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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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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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‘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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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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Timothy Gao, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience 虚拟游戏与维多利亚时代小说:虚构体验的伦理与美学

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0462

Brianna Beehler

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Dara Rossman Regaignon, Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre Dara Rossman Regaignon，《写产妇：医学、焦虑、修辞和流派》

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0463

Doreen Thierauf

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Claire Nally, Steampunk: Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian 克莱尔·纳利，蒸汽朋克：性别、亚文化与新维多利亚时代

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0458

M. Palma

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Tea, Fiction, and the Imperial Sensorium 茶、小说与帝国感官

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0456

Kate Thomas

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Jessie Reeder, The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature 杰西·里德:《非正式帝国的形式:英国、拉丁美洲和19世纪文学》

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0460

Wafa Hamid

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A ‘touch of Tombatism’: Mary Lamb, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Children Reading in Graveyards “Tombatism的触摸”：Mary Lamb、Mary Shelley、Charles Dickens和儿童在墓地阅读

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Victoriographies-A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914 Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/vic.2022.0453

J. Gardner

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