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French Novels and the Victorians
27 July 2017
Juliette Atkinson’s French Novels and the Victorians (OUP, 2017) takes issue with the long-standing portrayal of the Victorians as insular and prudish readers.
It explores how French fiction could be obtained, reveals some of the cosmopolitan networks that promoted it, and tackles contemporary debates surrounding censorship, immorality, literary influence, and cultural competition.