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Disraeli and South America

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This article asks how Disraeli thought about South America. It argues that his constitutional theories, and his schemes of global politics, both dealt seriously with issues raised by the region, and especially by Spanish America.
Alex Middleton
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The Mill on the Floss : la pluralité générique selon George Eliot

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004
George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss is obviously the result of generic interferences, the diegesis borrowing a lot from the traditional family saga, but also from the complex structure of classical tragedy, Eliot’s understanding of the direct social ...
Jean-Charles Perquin
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Successes and Failures of Benjamin Disraeli’s Rhetoric and Heresthetics: Corn Laws, Franchise, and Empire

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
It is not news that Benjamin Disraeli was a reckless and shape-shifting politician. This chapter claims that he was one of those rare shape-shifters who practised what has been called ‘heresthetics’, namely the art and science of turning a losing ...
Iain McLean
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Walter Pater et le paradoxe de l’idéal grec incarné par la sculpture

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004
Walter Pater, from his essay « Winckelmann » (1867) onwards, asserted that Greece was the quintessence of culture (echoing here Matthew Arnold’s theories) as well as a model to be imitated.
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
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‘I’m no Medievalist’: George Gilbert Scott and the Interpretation of the Gothic Revival in Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture: Present and Future (1857)

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022
In 1857, George Gilbert Scott gathered a number of writings and reflections in Remarks and presented himself as a staunch defender of Gothic in the then raging battle of styles.
Isabelle Cases
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Une anomalie culturelle : Mary Shelley et le statut de l’auteure

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004
Unlike most women writers of the 19th century, who had to overcome many social obstacles, Mary Shelley was very learned and strongly encouraged to write by her family circle. Yet she was caught in a web of conflicting duties : she had to be worthy of her
Caroline Varenne
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Morphogenetic Studies of the Drosophila DA1 Ventral Olfactory Projection Neuron.

open access: yes, 2016
In the Drosophila olfactory system, odorant information is sensed by olfactory sensory neurons and relayed from the primary olfactory center, the antennal lobe (AL), to higher olfactory centers via olfactory projection neurons (PNs).
Sao-Yu Chu   +11 more
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021
This article aims at exploring the role played by Freemasonry in displaying, promoting and celebrating the British Empire. It argues that Masonic lodges held centre stage in the Indian colonial public sphere.
Simon Deschamps
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Ontogeny of renal response to specific dopamine DA1-receptor stimulation in sheep

open access: yes, 1992
The present study was designed to characterize the developmental changes in the renal responses to dopamine DA1-receptor activation in chronically instrumented preterm (109-115 days) and near-term (130-140 days, full term 145 days) fetal sheep ...
J. L. Segar   +4 more
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The Palpable Legacy of Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction: Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and its Dialogue with Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860)

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This article first sketches out the legacy of The Woman in White and the sensation novel of the 1860s from the late-Victorian period to the present day.
Catherine Delyfer
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