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Looking for Walter Landor Dickens
Contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School, Early College On his 52 birthday (7 February, 1864) Charles Dickens received word that his son, Walter Landor, had died in India on 31 December 1863. A few days later Dickens described the circumstances of Walter’s death in...
An Interview with David Paroissien
Lydia Craig interviews David Paroissien, Emeritus Professor of English, UMass Amherst, on the occasion of his retirement as editor of Dickens Quarterly after more than thirty years. Dickens Quarterly was founded in 1970 at the Modern Language Association Convention. How did you first become editor...
Dickens and the Carceral Archipelago
This post has been contributed by Spencer Dodd, University of Wisconsin-Stout. See more posts in response to the 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium here and here. Prisons loom large in the landscapes of Dickens, standing as discrete, foreboding edifices within the quintessentially “Dickensian” backdrop of...
Sean Grass on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr. Sean Grass (Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology) is currently the Vice-President and President-Elect of the Dickens Society and a long-time member. Sean Grass is Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has authored several essays and three books, The...
Opium, Muffins, and Tea: The Setting of Nicholas Nickleby
This post has been contributed by Dano Cammarota. As a rule, and often unconsciously, I approach literature from a historical perspective. It is my comfort zone and understandably the works of Charles Dickens provide a plethora of history woven seamlessly into the narrative. At the...
CULTIVATING THE FUTURE OF DICKENS SCHOLARSHIP
THE 24TH ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM STUDENT WORKSHOPS This post has been contributed by Katherine J. Kim (Assistant Professor of English, Molloy College). From July 26th-29th, 2019, the 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium was held in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah at the Hotel Monaco. During...
Crossing the Borders: Windows and Thresholds in Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s
This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Find the second part here. Dickens in the Christmas stories of the 1840s uses specific frame images, many of...
Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts
The Dickens Society Blog aims to disseminate Dickensian research amongst the Society’s membership, the larger academic community, and the interested public. We welcome ongoing submissions from researchers at any career level on any topic relating to Dickens’s life, work, or world – if you would...
The Magic of Dickens’s Southwark
This post has been contributed by Amanda Harvey Purse. When we think of ‘Dickens’s London’, we may not instantly think of the borough of Southwark. This district however, packed a powerful punch for him, so much so that it played a vital role in Charles’s...
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