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Recent Dickens Studies 2021 近期狄更斯研究2021

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0229

Emily Bell

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Interview with Michael Hollington, the Anti-Specialist 反垄断专家Michael Hollington访谈录

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0176

Natalie McKnight, Michael Hollington

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Speculative Capital, Speculative Reading: The Materialist Ethics of Fiction in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and The Pickwick Papers 投机资本，投机阅读:狄更斯《我们共同的朋友》和《匹克威克外传》中小说的唯物主义伦理

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0121

Peter Katz

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The Queer Lives of Victorian Feminist Criticism 维多利亚时代女权主义批评的酷儿生活

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0188

Paris Shih

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Figuring Tough Subjects: Vague Labor and Narratorial Detection in Bleak House 厘清棘手的主题:《荒凉山庄》中的模糊劳动与叙事侦查

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0147

Alexander Lynch

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Noncanonical Victorian Women Novelists in the Twenty-First Century: Reconsidering Recovery Work 21世纪非规范的维多利亚女小说家：对恢复工作的再思考

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0212

Tamara S. Wagner

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Stains, Blushes, Flushes, and Other Telltale Marks in Our Mutual Friend 污渍、脸红、脸红和我们共同朋友身上的其他迹象

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.53.2.0241

Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.

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Troilism, David Copperfield, and the Problem of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 特洛伊主义、大卫·科波菲尔和伊芙·科索夫斯基问题

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.53.1.0001

J. Gordon

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Recent Dickens Studies: 2020 近期狄更斯研究:2020年

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Dickens Studies Annual Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.53.1.0088

Leslie S. Simon

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An Overview of Digital Resources for the Study of Victorian Fiction 维多利亚时代小说研究的数字资源综述