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Experiencing Léotard’s Sensational Body: Risk, Morality and Pleasure above the British Stage 体验Léotard的感性身体：英国舞台之上的风险、道德与快乐

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac071

Kate Holmes

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Microbial Matters: Form and Process in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders 微生物物质:托马斯·哈代《林地人》中的形式与过程

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac070

Molly MacVeagh

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Seen through Deep Time: Occult Clairvoyance and Palaeoscientific Imagination 透视深时间:神秘的千里眼和古科学想象

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac069

R. Fallon

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Addressing the Machine: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and Industrial Machinery 对机器的称呼:维多利亚时期工人阶级的诗歌和工业机器

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac064

K. Blair

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A Catalogue of Labouring-Class and Self-Taught Poets, c. 1700–1900: A Reflection 《劳动阶级和自学诗人目录》，约1700-1900年:反思

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-30 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac058

J. Goodridge

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Pugilism in Petticoats: Women and Prize-Fighting in Victorian Britain 衬裙中的拳击:维多利亚时代英国的妇女和职业拳击

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac062

Grace Di Méo

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Remembering Hodson’s Horse: Commemoration and the Indian Uprising of 1857–58 纪念霍德森的马：纪念和1857-58年印度起义

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-25 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac068

J. Cheshire

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Immediate Accidents and Lingering Trauma: Railwaymen Poets, Danger, and Emotive Verse 眼前的意外与挥之不去的创伤：铁路工人的诗人、危险与情感诗

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac063

Oliver Betts

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Roundtable Reflection 圆桌会议反映

IF 0.3 3区历史学

Journal of Victorian Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8196-5_6

S. Rennie

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Control and Enlightenment: Nineteenth-Century Miners’ Reading Rooms 控制与启蒙：19世纪矿工阅览室