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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Making the case for Victoriana
When people use the word ‘journalese’, they always do so pejoratively. They are not thinking of James Cameron, Bernard Levin or Walter Winchell. They mean a style that traffics in clichés. The poet B. I. Isherville has derided that kind of writing: W ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Oh what a show
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders 448, HarperPress, £20 The Victorians actually could contain themselves. Judith Flanders made a virtue of that ability in her second book, The Victorian House, an examina ... (read full critics)