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VICTORIANS LIVE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2014

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‘“Sincerity’ Is Not Enough”: “Drood,” Drood, and Victorian Camp

CAROLINE REITZ

A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau's Salome

RICHARD L. STEIN

Victorian Sentimentality at Tate Britain

CAROLYN BURDETT

Pre-Raphaelites in London and Washington

HERBERT SUSSMAN

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Review Essays
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 141 - 165
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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