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Article: Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2004
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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature. By ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xi + 372 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-19-818727-0.
Influence in all its many shapes and forms--literary, cultural, historical, religious, personal--is the subject of Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's weighty and ambitious Victorian Afterlives. It is a fascinating topic and one which has received a good deal of attention in recent years as critics have pondered relationships between texts, between authors, and between authors and their material circumstances and social and cultural milieux. ...