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“Framed in Wax”: Fiction as Artificial Experience in The Duchess of Malfi “蜡框”：《马尔菲公爵夫人》中的人造体验小说

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/721065

J. Mann

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Fictions of Human Nature in Early Modern Poetry and Philosophy 现代早期诗歌哲学中的人性小说

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/721061

T. Harrison

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Introduction: Interstitial Fiction 简介:间隙式小说

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/721058

W. Hyman, Jennifer Waldron

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In the Mood of Fiction 在小说的气氛中

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/721063

C. Rosenfeld

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The Utopian Hypothesis 乌托邦假说

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/721062

D. Sarkar

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Recent Studies of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1999–2020) 彭布罗克伯爵夫人玛丽·西德尼·赫伯特近史研究(1999-2020)

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719060

M. Hannay, Katherine R. Larson, C. Duncan

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Emblematic Tabernacles in John Donne, John Milton, and the Antwerp Polyglot Bible 约翰·多恩，约翰·弥尔顿，和安特卫普多语圣经中的象征性的帐幕

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719059

Tamara A. Goeglein

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Ridiculous Subjects: Coriolanus, Popular Representation, and the Roman Tribunes in Early Modern Drama 荒谬的主题:科利奥兰纳斯、大众代表和早期现代戏剧中的罗马护民官

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719058

A. S. Brown

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From Plays-Within to Players Without: Theatrical Hospitality in Hamlet and Sir Thomas More 从内部戏剧到外部戏剧：哈姆雷特和托马斯·莫尔爵士的戏剧好客

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719056

K. Blankenau

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The Relics of Hippolytus in Spenser’s Faerie Queene 斯宾塞《仙后》中希波吕托斯的遗物

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719055

Jeff Espie, D. Adkins

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