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Sounding Slavery in the Victorian Drawing Room: The ‘Blackface’ Ballads of Philip Klitz 维多利亚时代客厅里的奴隶制:菲利普·克里茨的“黑脸”民谣

3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad013

Roger Hansford

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‘Be a gen’l’m’n and a Conserwative Sammy’: Political Remediations of the Pickwick Papers in the Provincial Press (1836–1837) “做一个将军，做一个保守的萨米”:《匹克威克外传》在省报上的政治修正(1836-1837)

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad030

Kathleen Holdway

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Trick of the Eye: Prospect Gazing, Illusion, and the University Novel 眼睛的把戏：前景凝视、幻觉与大学小说

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-06 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad028

J. Bunzel

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Florence Nightingale and the Provincial Response to the Crimean War 弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔与俄国对克里米亚战争的反应

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad033

J. Memel

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Afterword: Provincialism at Large 后记：大规模的地方主义

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad034

S. Rennie

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Middleness: Provincial Fiction and the Aesthetics of Dull Life 中庸:乡土小说与平淡生活美学

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-27 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad029

R. Livesey

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Provincialism at Large: Reading Locality, Scale, and Circulation in Nineteenth-Century Britain 地方主义:解读十九世纪英国的地域、规模与流通

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad031

R. Livesey

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The Archaeological Aesthetic 考古美学

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad023

S. Lyons

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Local Histories 当地的历史

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcad027

R. McWilliam

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Thinking Back Through Her Mothers 回想她的母亲