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Louisa’s Spiritual Awakening: Temptation, Abstinence, and the Female Recovery Narrative in Hard Times
Contributed by Katie Brandt Sartain, Graduate Researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Twitter @bratie_kandt There is no shortage of drinkers, druggers, and over-imbibers in the Dickensian canon. From Sydney Carton and his bumpers of rum to John Jasper’s ravenous opium habit to the destitution...
Call for Blog Co-Editor
The Dickens Society is currently accepting applications for co-editor of our blog. Any interested parties should email their qualifications to Dr. Catherine Quirk at: Quirkc@edgehill.ac.uk The Society is interested in growing the blog to become a more open-source platform for researchers at any stage of...
Dispatches from the 26th Symposium: Charles Dickens and Peter Pitchlynn
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. Recent years have seen significant scholarly interest in Dickens and race, a trend continued by the 2021 Virtual Dickens Symposium, which featured multiple papers analyzing Dickens’s works in the context of racial issues. While these papers...
Call for 2021 Dickens Society Symposium Bursary Applications
Call for 2021 Dickens Society Symposium Bursary Applications The Dickens Society annually provides bursaries of to support the scholarly development of graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. Though our symposium is virtual this year, we will be offering a modest bursary of...
Anti-racism Statement of the Charles Dickens Society
In light of the murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, the even more recent shooting of Jacob Blake, and the other unconscionable acts of violence inflicted lately and too routinely upon members of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities...
Dental Afterlives: Dickens and Victorian Dentistry
This post is contributed by Eleanor C. Faulkner, PhD student in the department of English and Drama at Queen Mary University, London. Our culture has inherited unsavoury dental practitioners. These include those pilloried by Charlie Chaplin’s silent film ‘Laughing Gas’ (1914), the films Marathon Man...
Dickens at the Intersection of Literacy and Numeracy Anxieties
This post has been contributed by Brittany Carlson, PhD Candidate in the English Department of the University of California, Riverside. She can be found on Twitter @BrittanyAnneCa2 Writer’s block is all too common an experience. An idea is “on the tip of your tongue” one...
The Use of Dickens in Popular Fiction: ‘Spirited’ by Julie Cohen
By Deborah Siddoway The ‘making of fiction is an inseparable part of his being.’ So said Peter Ackroyd of Dickens in his 1990 biography of the inimitable author. [1] And as we now commemorate the life of Dickens in the 150th year since his death,...
Dickens Possibly Influenced “Sweeney Todd”
By Herb Moskovitz. Reprinted with kind permission of the author and David Perdue’s The Charles Dickens Page. In Philadelphia there is a wonderful walk-through exhibit of A Christmas Carol in Macy’s on Market Street. There are three-dimensional tableaus of scenes from the classic story and in the...
Call for Papers for the 26th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Dickens in Print.” July 11-14, 2021, Rochester, New York
Given our recent postponement of London 2020, this year’s proposal process will work a little differently. If you were accepted for the 2020 meeting and you wish to propose the same paper, please do so, and you will be accepted again. (Asking you to re-send...
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