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Into the Dickens-Verse
This post has been contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School Early College, Cleveland. Read his previous contribution here. On January 16th 2019 I wrote a Twitter thread about Great Expectations in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I am grateful for the Dickens Society communications team...
Lillian Nayder on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Lillian Nayder is Professor of English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century British fiction, including “Jane Austen: Then and Now,” “The Brontës,” and “Dickens Revised.” Her seminar topics include “The Arctic Sublime” and “Victorian Crime Fiction.” Her research interests center...
Nabokov’s Father as “an Authority on Dickens”: Part Two
This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Read the first part here. The next article was written with an academic purpose, and aimed to give a...
Nabokov’s Father as “an Authority on Dickens”: Part One
This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Read the second part here. Vladimir Nabokov writes to Edmund Wilson in a letter of 1950: “My father had...
Leslie Simon on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr. Leslie Simon (Chair, Philosophy and Humanities, Utah Valley University), discusses one of her current projects on possible connections between the character Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861) and a contemporary Victorian debate over the Indian practice of sati/suttee, self-immolation practiced by some...
“The Hero of My Own Life”: David Copperfield and Carlyle’s “Hero as the Man of Letters”
Contributed by Marian Gentile (Temple University, Philadelphia) In the opening line of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), David states, “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”...
“Is there no dinner theatre?!”: Little Dickens and a Dickensian Christmas
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk (@quirk_catherine), McGill University. Read her previous posts here, here, and here. In December 2019, theatre-goers at Montréal’s Centaur Theatre found themselves exposed to a new kind of Dickensian Christmas. From 19 November to 21 December, “Master Marionette...
Diana C. Archibald on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr. Diana C. Archibald (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Dickens Society member/former officer) discusses her work and perceptions of “American Notes for General Circulation” (1842) by Charles Dickens on the related subjects of incarceration and slavery. She also mentions the 2012 “Dickens in...
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Royal Doulton Dickens at The American Toby Jug Museum: Imitations of the Inimitable
Contributed by Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago Ever since the invention of Toby Jugs in the 1760s in Northern England, these collectibles have been bought and sold by people fascinated by the range of their creative potential. Technically, “A Toby Jug is a figural ceramic...
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