Dickens and Reception
The Tell-Tale Sign of the Dickensian Influence: Dickens and Poe
Katie Bell holds a PhD in English from the University of Leicester. She can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/decadentdickens and on https://www.notions-nineteenth.com/ Dickens’s works are most associated with hearth and home, goodwill to one’s neighbors and the value of conviviality. His more macabre storylines are sometimes...
In Conversation With: Dr Chris Louttit
Chris Louttit is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He is the current Vice-President of the Dickens Society, having served previously as a Trustee and been a frequent participant at Dickens Society Symposia since 2004. His PhD was on...
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,...
Into the Dickens-Verse, pt. 2
This is the second part of Christian Lehmann’s analysis of how Into the Spider-Verse engages with Great Expectations. To read part one, click here. When we left off last time, we had set up a number of ways in which Great Expectations appears throughout Spider-Verse. In this installment,...
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...
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