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Semblances of truth: The Romantic lyric revisited 真相的似是而非：浪漫主义抒情诗再探

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-02-27 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12702

Chris Townsend

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Global movements in Hisaye Yamamoto's short fiction 山本久叶短篇小说中的全球运动

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12704

Jeffrey Mather

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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body 浪漫的物品，维多利亚时代的收藏品:抄写文物和作者的身体

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12703

Tim Sommer

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State of the field: Early modern magic 领域现状:早期现代魔法

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-28 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12701

Katherine Walker

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Dispossessed by norms like autonomy: Rethinking relational autobiography with Butler and Berlant 被自主性等规范所剥夺:与巴特勒和伯兰特一起反思关系自传

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12700

Kim Schoof

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Victorian women travellers and amateur art collecting in Japan, 1863–1893 1863-1893年，维多利亚时代的女性旅行者和日本的业余艺术收藏

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12699

Margaret K. Gray

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Anti-Judaism versus anti-Semitism: The racialization of Jews in late antiquity 反犹太教与反犹太主义：古代晚期犹太人的种族化

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12698

Yonatan Binyam

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Beyond taxonomies: Vagrantly “inhabiting” the modernist classroom 超越分类法：流浪地“栖息”在现代主义课堂上

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12696

Ruchi Mundeja

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Belatedness and innovation: Korean modernism 滞后与创新：韩国现代主义

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12690

Kelly S. Walsh

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The regional turn to modernist studies in Singapore 新加坡现代主义研究的区域性转向

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12693

Teck Heng Tan

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