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VICTORIANS LIVE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

Herbert Sussman
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Victorians Live examines the afterlife of the Victorians, the ways that Victorian literature and culture remain alive, continue to live in our own day.

Twenty-First Century Millais

ELIZABETH PRETTEJOHN

The Labor of Photography

GEOFFREY BATCHEN

Art & Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

HERBERT SUSSMAN

Sondheim's Sweeney Todd on Stage and Screen

SHARON ARONOFSKY WELTMAN

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Review Essay
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 287 - 310
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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