Dickens and Demolition
Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Urban Development
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
Av Joanna Hofer-Robinson, University College Cork) Hofer-Robinson, Joanna (Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature
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- Utgivningsdatum2018-08-02
- Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
- Vikt550 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
- Antal sidor264
- FörlagEdinburgh University Press
- ISBN9781474420983
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