French Novels and the Victorians
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 15917
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN
- 9780197266090
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 350-page monograph (150,000 words) was partly researched and written during a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Drawing on archives on both sides of the Channel, and analysing primary sources in both French and English, it is the first large-scale survey of Anglo-French literary relations in the period, and sheds new light on the dissemination and circulation of books, censorship, reading networks, plagiarism, and notions of cultural competition. The book treats the reception of many French writers, both canonical and lesser-known, and corrects the longstanding misconception that Victorian readers were either too prudish or insular to engage with continental literature.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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