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REPRESENTING THE “HUNGRY FORTIES” IN IMAGE AND VERSE: THE POLITICS OF HUNGER IN EARLY-VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2012

Charlotte Boyce
Charlotte Boyce*
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University of Portsmouth
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , September 2012 , pp. 421 - 449
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