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Domesticating the Child: Maternal Responses to Hereditary Discourse in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 驯化儿童:《怀尔德费尔庄园的房客》中母亲对遗传话语的回应

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1026009AR

Elizabeth Pellerito

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Female Independence in Mary Robinson’s The Natural Daughter 玛丽·罗宾逊《天生的女儿》中女性的独立

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1026007AR

K. Watts

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Coleridge’s Late Confessions: Personification, Convention, and Free Agency 柯勒律治晚期的自白:人格化、惯例与自由代理

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1026000AR

Joshua King

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Melodrama and the Penitent Woman Tableau in Victorian Culture: From Tennyson to Conrad 维多利亚文化中的情节剧与忏悔的女人形象:从丁尼生到康拉德

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1025999AR

M. Gregory

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Prophet of the Electric Age: Cultural Performativity as Nonviolent Revolution in the Lifework of Percy Bysshe Shelley 电子时代的先知:珀西·比希·雪莱一生工作中的非暴力革命——文化表演

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1026005AR

Neşe Devenot

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Public Intimacies: Frances Burney’s and Jane Cave Winscom’s Accounts of Illness 《公共亲密关系:弗朗西斯·伯尼和简·凯夫·温斯科姆对疾病的描述》

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1026006AR

K. Rogers

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An infusion of the modern spirit into the ancient form:’ Textual Objects and Historical Consciousness in George Eliot’s Romola. 现代精神对古代形式的注入——乔治·艾略特《罗莫拉》中的文本客体和历史意识。

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-07-29 DOI: 10.7202/1026002AR

Mattie Burkert

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“Romantic Realism/Victorian Romance”: An Introduction to Four Provocations “浪漫现实主义/维多利亚浪漫主义”:四种挑衅的介绍

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-06-17 DOI: 10.7202/1025674AR

Elaine Freedgood, Maureen N. Mclane

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Andrew Lang’s “Literary Plagiarism”: Reading Material and the Material of Literature 朗的“文学剽窃”:阅读材料与文学材料

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-06-17 DOI: 10.7202/1025671AR

Letitia Henville

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What is A Network? (And Who is Andrew Lang?) 什么是网络?(安德鲁·朗是谁?)

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net Pub Date : 2014-06-17 DOI: 10.7202/1025668AR

Nathan K. Hensley

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