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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Orestano, Francesca

“…Virginia Woolf was a keen preserver of some Victorian values, and among these the art of Charles Dickens, with his representation of London, its voices,…”
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Victorian Arts and the Challenge of Modernity: Analogy, the Grid, and Chemical Transformations by Orestano, Francesca

“…My article has its point of departure among the artists of the 20th-century avant-garde, who worked with a distinct awareness of their modernity and yet…”
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“Looking on darkness which the blind do see”: the Figure of the Blind Girl in Dickens and the Dickensian by ORESTANO, Francesca

“…The article focuses on the theme of blindness in Dickens’s American Notes (1842) and in The Cricket on the Hearth (1845): sight impairment is treated as a…”
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Transgression vs the Politically Correct: Phases and Faces of a Core Category in Children’s Literature by Orestano, Francesca

“…It seems that in recent years criticism has been eagerly focusing on ‘transgression’ and ‘transgressive’ as keywords that enlarge the epistemic horizon,…”
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David Finkelstein, ed, The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2. Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 by Orestano, Francesca

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The Chemistry of Taste by Orestano, Francesca

“…The debate on impure images in post-Reformation England, and the different policy adopted by Reynolds and Hogarth in order to redefine the value of art are…”
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Gli Etruschi nella memoria culturale britannica, tra Otto e Novecento: ovvero il sublime fascino di un braccialetto by Francesca Orestano

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David Finkelstein, ed, The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2. Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 by Orestano, Francesca

“…This hefty volume should be present in each university library, as a precious, and indispensable tool for students and scholars who investigate not only the…”
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Sounds Victorian: Acoustic Experience in 19th-Century Britain by Arias, Rosario, Coste, Bénédicte, Delyfer, Catherine, D’Amore, Manuela, Hardy, Zoé, Harley, Anne, Hollington, Michael, Jougan, Sylvie, Kérchy, Anna, Klik, Lukas, Kocic-Zámbó, Larisa, Laurent, Béatrice, Miroshnychenko, Lilia, Orestano, Francesca, Parrino, Maria, Ratail, Lucie, Richard, Joël, Zittlau, Andrea

“…Since the 1960s, the sensory history of Victorian Britain has focused on visuality, and has convinced us that scopic passion had never been as acute and…”
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‘Dear Child’: Talking to Children in Victorian and Edwardian Publications for Children by Brasme, Isabelle, Chassefière, Charlotte, Clarke, Laura H, Coste, Bénédicte, Doussot, Audrey, Dunleavy, Matthew, Field, Hannah, Hervouet, Isabelle, Iché, Virginie, Jenkins, Melissa, Kim, Hera, Orestano, Francesca, Richet-Drouet, Stéphanie, Rosaye, Jean-Paul, Tosi, Laura, Valero Redondo, María, Vanfasse, Nathalie

“…So many children’s books were published during the Victorian and Edwardian eras that scholars refer to that period as ‘the Golden Age of children’s…”
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The Transformative Power of the Arts in Victorian and Edwardian Culture and Society / 58e Congrès de la SAES, atelier de la SFEVE, Utopia(s) and Revolution(s) by Bedeau, Camille, Bouvard, Luc, Brasme, Isabelle, de Bont, Leslie, Dixon, Keith, Dupeyron-Lafay, Françoise, Gaspari, Fabienne, Heyrendt-Sherman, Catherine, Koudinoff, Gwendoline, Laniel-Musitelli, Sophie, Laurent, Béatrice, Mellet, Laurent, Orestano, Francesca, Raimbault, Élodie, Reynier, Christine, Roussillon-Constanty, Laurence, Salmon, Richard, Terrier, Marie, Teulié, Gilles, Tizot, Jean-Yves, Wasilewski, Aurélien

“…Les articles réunis dans ce volume sont issus du colloque annuel de la SFEVE intitulé « The Transformative Power of the Arts in Victorian and Edwardian Culture…”
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The Revd William Gilpin and the Picturesque; Or, Who's Afraid of Doctor Syntax? by Orestano, Francesca

“…The paper, which was originally presented at a conference commemorating the bicentenary of the Revd William Gilpin's death, attempts to re-establish his…”
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Bust story: Pope at Stowe, or the politics and myths of landscape gardening by Orestano, Francesca

“…Orestano analyzes Alexander Pope's complex relationship with the rural ideal and, in particular, the aristocratic principles of landscape gardening. Among…”
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1. Dickensian Prospects / 2. Artistic and Literary Commitments by ANDREWS, Malcolm, BORT, Françoise, CADINOT, Dominique, CHAMPS, Emmanuelle DE, CHIALANT, Maria Teresa, COATALEN, Guillaume, COSTE, Bénédicte, COSTE, Marie-Amélie, COTTENET, Cécile, DANIELS, Henry, DUCHATEAU, Béatrice, EDMONDSON, John, GILLESPIE, Margaret, GIUDICELLI, Xavier, HUGUET, Christine, JOHN, Juliet, JORDAN, John O, KRÁL, Françoise, LESME, Anne, LOUIS-DIMITROV, Delphine, MANSANTI, Céline, MARRE, Oriane, MATHIS, Charles-François, MURAT, Jean-Christophe, ORESTANO, Francesca, PIGGOTT, Gillian, PREST, Céline, RAINSFORD, Dominic, SMITH, Marc S, TAMBLING, Jeremy, VALLAS, Sophie, VANFASSE, Nathalie

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Rob Kroes and Maartem van Rossem (eds.), Anti-Americanism in Europe. European Contributions to American Studies 11 (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1986, DFL 32.50). Pp. 156. ISBN 90 6256 019 9. - Rob Kroes (ed.), High Brow Meets Low Brow: American Culture as an Intellectual Concern. European Contributions to American Studies 13 (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1988, DFL 65.00 cloth, DFL 32.50 paper). Pp. 240. ISBN 90 6256 621 9, ISBN 90 6256 6189 by Orestano, Francesca

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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2. Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 by Orestano, Francesca

“…Orestano reviews The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press edited by David Finkelstein…”
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Paesaggio e letteratura. Giardini e Paesaggio, Vol. 11 by Orestano, Francesca

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In Bed with the Exotic Enemy by ORESTANO, FRANCESCA

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"In Bed with the Exotic Enemy: Stories and Novella" by Daniela Gioseffi (Book Review) by Orestano, Francesca

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Death of the Plankton Bar & Grill by ORESTANO, FRANCESCA

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