From Dumas fils’s Étrangère to Wilde’s Aventurière: French Theatrical Forerunners of the Wildean Female Dandy by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…My aim is thus twofold: first to recognize the debt British playwrights contracted towards French drama and, secondly, to state that French theatrical stereotypes, even when being the main cause of native playwrights’ drowsiness, were also the first step towards the renaissance of English drama, as it can be observed throughout Oscar Wilde’s, Pinero’s, Gilbert’s and Jones’s dramaturgies.…”
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Illustrating Victorian Poetry: The Dynamics of Photographic Tableaux Vivants by Gwendoline Koudinoff

“…This essay explores the intricate text-image relationship between Victorian poetry and their photographic illustrations by Julia Margaret Cameron, Henry Peach Robinson and Lady Hawarden. The three Victorian artists created living pictures, which are commonly referred to as tableaux vivants and which offered visual interpretations of the following poems: Idylls of the King and The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Tristram and Iseult by Matthew Arnold and The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. …”
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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…This policy of self-censorship, and excessive somatization, gives a symptomatic function to excess as a revelator of social pathologies (unfair patriarchal laws) and family disorders — repressive and unhealthy marital situations and all forms of abuse inflicted on wives. …”
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Sages comme des images ? Les héroïnes sensationnalistes et le monde de la mode by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…If the sensational heroines shocked the critical establishment because of their passionate character or of their murderous drives, they were also criticized for the way they fashioned their bodies, using artificial aids to appear seamless beauties. …”
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« But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate » : la peur de l’autre dans The Beetle de Richard Marsh by Catherine Lanone

“…Published in 1897, The Beetle by Richard Marsh was a great fin-de-siècle success which once rivalled the now arch-famous Dracula. …”
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Tonsillitis Caused by Vomiting in a Patient with Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Literature Review by Miles Bannister

“…Here we present the first ever case report of such a case of tonsillitis and a review of the literature of otolaryngology manifestations and complications of bulimia nervosa.…”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ Pater’s Enigmatic Term by Morito Uemura

“…In the opening chapter of Les Misérables, Hugo describes the pure nature of a deeply religious elderly lady. The woman here seems to be no longer a physical being, but has become, in her old age, a transparence, so to speak, as everything in her expresses her angelic nature. …”
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An Unusual Case of Cystic Fibrosis Associated Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia in an Infant by Ravinder Kaur, Priyanka Katariya, Megh Singh Dhakad, Bhanu Mehra, Urmila Jhamb, A. P. Dubey

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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…It focuses on two aspects of church architecture and decoration that are foregrounded in fin-de-siècle poetry and fiction—and were highly polemical in the late Victorian context because of their association with the Ritualist controversy and with ‘Romishness’: the eastward position, i.e. the celebration of the Eucharist on a stone altar fixed to the back of the chancel rather than on a wooden communion table facing the congregation; and altar candles, which were condemned in anti-ritualist pamphlets as both pagan and ‘popish’. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…Admittedly, Hutchinson’s and Dixie’s journeys were an expression of protest and power. If the Zulus were being erased from history, their narratives, recording their experiences on the controversial terrain in South Africa, tried to prevent them from being erased by history. …”
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Combat the growing prevalence of anaemia through underutilised iron-rich plant-based foods by Naman Kaur, Arthittaya Thuanthong, Simran Kaur, Aparna Agarwal, Manisha Sabharwal, Jatinder K. Sahu, Jayashree Arcot, Abhishek Dutt Tripathi, Pankaj Koirala, Nilesh Nirmal

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The Rare Case of an Adult-Onset Xanthogranuloma of the Paranasal Sinuses: A Histological Dilemma by J. Bastianpillai, N. Haloob, S. A. Panchappa, J. Marais

“…Xanthogranuloma is a rare benign tumour, part of the non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis group, uncommon in adults and even less common in the paranasal sinuses. Despite its benign nature, it mimics neoplasm due to its local effects which can have serious functional consequences depending on the anatomical location. …”
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Dualities of Function: Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Movement and Space within the late‒Victorian Department Store by Kate Morris

“…In large stores, where sales figures were the only indicator of success, assistants were under pressure to ‘never allow a lady to leave without a sale’. …”
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Balloon Cell Urethral Melanoma: Differential Diagnosis and Management by M. McComiskey, C. Iavazzo, M. Datta, R. Slade, B. Winter-Roach, G. Lambe, V. K. Sangar, M. Smith

“…Preoperative CT showed no distant metastases and an MRI scan of the pelvis demonstrated no associated lymphadenopathy. She underwent anterior exenterative surgery and vaginectomy also. …”
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Clinical Manifestations and Distribution of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Pakistan by Abaseen Khan Afghan, Masoom Kassi, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Adil Ayub, Niamatullah Kakar, Shah Muhammad Marri

“…Hence, we would strongly advocate that since most of these patients present to local health care centers and hospitals, primary care practitioners and even lady health workers (LHWs) should be trained in identification of at least the common presentations of CL.…”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…During a stay with the Woods in London, Prince pushed the door of The Anti-Slavery Society in November 1829. She was then taken under the protection of Thomas Pringle, who would soon edit Prince’s autobiography, typed by a friend of his, Susanna Strickland.In this essay, I try to demonstrate that Prince’s narrative—through Strickland’s mediation—uses rhetoric to transfigure herself, from an animal into a British lady, thus challenging the classic distinction between the savage slave and the civilized European. …”
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Minimally invasive excision of aortic valve fibroelastoma by B.М. Тоdurov, M.D. Glagola, G.I. Darvish, O.G. Bitsadze, А.V. Ivanyuk, N.V. Shatelen, O.S. Bolgova, S.I. Dorofeeva

“…We describe the case of a 57 years-old lady using minimally invasive sternotomy. …”
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A Rare Case of Multifocal Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Bilateral Thyroid Cysts by Anupama Roy Chowdhury, Jack Kian Ch’ng, Choon Chieh Tan

“…In patients whom PTC is diagnosed incidentally after a diagnostic lobectomy, the decision whether to offer completion thyroidectomy is sometimes challenging to make if such patients fall in the ‘low-to-intermediate’ risk category. We present a case of a 55-year-old lady who had a predominantly cystic left thyroid nodule with no suspicious features on ultrasound as well as 2 subcentimetre simple right-sided cysts. …”
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Extrapulmonary sarcoidosis presenting as myositis: A rare case by Niraj Bohania, Sumeet Singla, Jagriti Nahata, Pijush Kanti Nandi, Seema Daksh, S Anuradha

“…Skeletal muscle (1-2%) involvement is even rare. We report a 40 year old lady presented with easy fatigability, low grade fever for 5-6 months and generalized myalgias. …”
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Fetus in Fetu in an Adult Female and Brief Review of Literature by Saroj Sharma, Prashant Kumar Gupta, Basanta Regmi, Aarti Gupta, Upasana Lamichhane

“…Surgical excision is the ideal treatment even teratoma being the differential diagnosis.…”
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