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The death of utopian politics in mid-nineteenth-century France or what the Icarians can tell us about QAnon, conspiracy, and our political moment 19世纪中叶法国乌托邦政治的消亡或者伊卡利亚派可以告诉我们的关于QAnon，阴谋和我们的政治时刻

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2105105

Daniel Sipe

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Sensitive negotiations: indigenous diplomacy and British romantic poetry 敏感谈判：本土外交与英国浪漫主义诗歌

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2107002

R. Richardson

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Empire News: the Anglo-Indian press writes India 帝国新闻:英印媒体写印度

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2107008

Amelia Bonea

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Strange gods: love and idolatry in the Victorian Novel 怪神：维多利亚小说中的爱情与偶像崇拜

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2107003

Dominic Janes

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Making pictorial print: media literacy and mass culture in British magazines, 1885-1918 制作图画印刷品:英国杂志的媒介素养和大众文化，1885-1918

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2107007

N. Hultgren

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Nineteenth-century American literature and the discourse of natural history 19世纪美国文学与自然史话语

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2107000

Andrew Ross

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The pleasure of everything beautiful: Arthur Schopenhauer’s concept of genius and the art of the avant-garde 一切美好的快乐：叔本华的天才观与先锋派艺术

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2105627

Alicja Rybkowska

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“Most naturil causes”: Rudyard Kipling and the suicidal soldier “最自然的原因”：鲁迪亚德·吉卜林和自杀的士兵

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-26 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2104112

Hosanna Krienke

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Victorian contingencies: experiments in literature, science, and play 维多利亚时代的突发事件：文学、科学和戏剧实验

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2084677

Adam Grener

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Critical rhythm: the poetics of a literary life form 批评节奏:一种文学生命形式的诗学

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Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2084681

M. Hansen

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