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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2008 Published in 1897, The Beetle by Richard Marsh was a great fin-de-siècle success which once rivalled the now arch-famous Dracula. Although it has almost sunk into oblivion, The Beetle may have been deemed powerful in its time because it displays all the ...
Catherine Lanone
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Il demone moderno. Soggettività e alterità in Leopardi
Cahiers d’Études ItaliennesThis article examines Leopardi’s reflection on subjectivity and otherness by proposing a reading of the Dialogo di Torquato Tasso e del suo Genio familiare [Dialogue of Torquato Tasso and His Familiar Genius] and the Dialogo della Natura e di un ...
Paola Cori
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Ispirazioni dantesche: la Commedia nei poemi di Jacopo Sanvitale e Francesco Scaramuzza
Ricerche di S/Confine, 2021 In the nineteenth century history of Parma’s literature, Dante’s fortune comes in contact with the occult sciences and it is particularly affected by mesmerism and spiritism.
Francesco Gallina
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Dickens, Victorian Mental Sciences and Mnemonic Errancy
19, 2010 While Dickens's alertness to debates about the physiology of the mind has been the subject of a number of critical investigations in the past two decades (especially with respect to Dickens's interest in mesmerism), this article investigates the ...
Greta Perletti
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História, Ciências, Saúde: ManguinhosResumo No início do século XIX, investigações sobre a natureza de fenômenos psíquicos/espirituais como transes e supostas aquisições de informações indisponíveis aos canais sensoriais normais geraram grande debate no meio científico.
Marcelo Gulão Pimentel +2 more
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2017 The article is devoted to the essay “Sevan” by Mandelshtam from the cycle “The Travel to Armenia”. The prose by Mandelshtam has the special sequence of ideas: instead of sequential telling of the plot the author uses the “montage”, and the “key” to this ...
I F Golovchenko
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.In this study, a series of novel substituted Ph‐1,2,3‐triazole derivatives 7(a–k) were synthesised via a combination of cycloaddition reactions, Click chemistry approach and Pd‐catalysed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling. The substituted Ph‐1,2,3‐triazoles 7(a–k) were assessed for their in vitro anti‐inflammatory activity, via in vitro experiments with Celecoxib
Shalini Aitha +5 more
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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