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I believe, and have invested my best years in the belief that the more Victorian fiction you read, the better you will understand any single novel of the period.1 This belief was fraught, for me, by obstructions in the period I was studying the genre seriously. One such obstruction is vita brevis. There are so many Victorian novels,2 and one’s reading life is so short. However fast you cover the ground, it simply can’t be done.
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Sutherland, J. (2016). Afterword from the Hinterland. In: Downes, D., Ferguson, T. (eds) Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51823-1_14
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