Dickens and Psychology


The Ghost and Mr. Dickens


This post is contributed by Katie Bell, senior editor of the Dickens Society blog. Her PhD is from the University of Leicester, and she currently researches Dickens and the paranormal. She has contributed several other pieces to the blog, is a high school teacher near...

From Bleak House to Birmingham: New Perspectives on Dickens at the 29th Annual Symposium


This post was contributed by Dean J. Hill, recipient of the Robert J. Partlow, Jr. Prize at the 2024 Dickens Society Symposium and a postgraduate research student at the University of Birmingham. The Best of Times: A Dickensian Gathering in Birmingham As scholars and literary...

“Confess this minute … that you did it to correct and amend me!”: Gaslighting in Dickens’s Novels


This post is contributed by Dr. Katherine J. Kim, assistant professor at Molloy University in New York. Katherine’s other recent projects have been book chapters and articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Catherine Crowe.  In the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year...

“where the things that might have been, and never were, are always wandering:” The Fireside and Subjectivity


This post was contributed by Céleste Callen, a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research focuses on time and subjective temporal experience in Dickens’s fiction, by reading his fiction through the lens of Henri Bergson’s philosophy. She can be found on Twitter...