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The ‘wilds of Brompton’: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women Writers’ Early Careers in the Sociable London Suburbs 布朗普顿的荒野"：描绘十九世纪女作家在伦敦郊区社交场所的早期职业生涯

IF 0.2 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcae012

Karen Bourrier, Dan Jacobson, J. Brosz

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Mechanics Institutes in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Victoria: Racial Difference and Liberalism in the Settler Colony 十九世纪中期维多利亚州的机械学院：殖民殖民地的种族差异与自由主义

IF 0.2 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcae014

Leigh Boucher

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Take me to the River: Sophie Anderson and Elaine of Astolat 带我去河边索菲-安德森和阿斯托拉特的伊莱恩

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcae009

John McLoughlin

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What have the Belgians to do with British Nineteenth-Century Culture? 比利时人与英国十九世纪文化有何关系？

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcae007

Henk de Smaele

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Correction to: ‘Meeting Together in an Equal and Friendly Manner’: The Workplace Literary Culture of Lancashire Mutual Improvement Societies 更正件以平等友好的方式相聚"：兰开夏郡互助改进协会的工作场所文学文化

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad035

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Ford Madox Brown’s History of Manchester 福特-马多克斯-布朗的《曼彻斯特史

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad045

N. Tromans

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The Jew in the Jamaican, the Amalgam in the Attic: A New View of Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre 牙买加人中的犹太人，阁楼上的汞合金：夏洛蒂-勃朗特《简-爱》中贝莎-梅森的新形象

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcae001

Shanee Stepakoff

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Edwardian Follies 爱德华时代的歌舞剧

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad048

R. McWilliam

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Gaskell in China: A History of Translation and Critical Reception 中国的盖斯凯尔翻译史与评论界的接受

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcae002

Kui Zeng

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A New Woman Dialogue with Aestheticism and Decadence: Netta Syrett’s Short Stories for The Yellow Book 新女性与唯美主义和颓废派的对话：内塔-西莱特为《黄皮书》撰写的短篇小说

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad044

Lucy Ella Rose

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