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* pm High Fever and the Victorian Imagination

on BBC Radio 3

' He heard the wild. scudding voice imperfectly: it reminded him of a string of winter geese, changing waters.... and allowed him a moment's incredulity as to its being a human voice.'
(Beauchamp's Career by GEORGE MEREDITH)
Gillian Beer. Fellow of Girton College. Cambridge, argues that, because fever was a common experience in the 19th century, Victorian writers used it as a device to by-pass the inhibitions of their readers. Reader JOHN HOLMSTROM

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Gillian Beer.
Reader:
John Holmstrom

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