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  • ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors

    Nilay Kılınç and Russell King discuss the making of their book on second-generation Turkish-German return migration

    August 21, 2025
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5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright

The editors of The Plays of Charles Dickens discuss five arguments in defense of Dickens's dramatic works.

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A career in crime: Dr Eric Sandberg reflects on research in crime fiction studies

I came to crime fiction studies through the back door. Like many people, I grew up reading mysteries. Franklin W. Dixon’s Hardy Boys series was an early favourite – I coveted the small blue hardcovers with a greedy passion, and…

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A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation

by  Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known for their simplicity, being frequently characterized by a repeated use of either a striking phrase that dominates their speech (such…

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Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 2

By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Volume 7 of Victoriographies, a journal of Victorian writing in the long 19th century, 1790-1914. <Read Part One The point of this…

  • Teri Williams
  • February 17, 2017
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Julian Wolfreys photo

Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 1

By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial  (on the significance of Victorian) appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Victoriographies Volume 7.    People soak up time like sponges. They steep themselves in it, amass it…

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  • February 6, 2017

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