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Sexuality, Literature, and Society in Victorian England
Steven Marcus discusses his book The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, which explores gender and sexuality in the literature of that period. Marcus argues that labeling the Victorian era as “repressive” is an oversimplification. … Continue reading
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Fiction of Joseph Conrad
Ian Watt discusses the panoramic and complicated development of modern fiction by situating the modern novel in general, and the fiction of Joseph Conrad in particular, within a nexus of biographical and historical perspectives. At the time of this interview, … Continue reading
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