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Black lives and peripatetic practice in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Summer Will Show and David Garnett’s The Sailor’s Return 西尔维娅·汤森·华纳的《夏日意志秀》和大卫·加内特的《水手归来》中黑人的生活和流浪实践

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Modernist Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/mod.2023.0402

Milena Schwab-Graham

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Review of Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–1992 by Rebecca Beasley 《俄国狂热:俄国文化与英国现代主义的创造，1881-1992》，丽贝卡·比斯利著

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Modernist Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/mod.2023.0404

Claire Davison

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Outside Joke: Virginia Woolf’s Freshwater and Coterie Insularity 外面的笑话:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的淡水和小圈子的孤立

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Modernist Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/mod.2023.0403

Michelle Alexis Taylor

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Front matter 前页

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Modernist Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/mod.2023.0399

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‘The novel is going to rediscover itself’: Dorothy Richardson, The Freewoman, and Individual Expression “小说将重新发现自己”:多萝西·理查森，《自由女人》和《个人表达

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Modernist Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/mod.2023.0401

Thomas Haughton

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