Dickens and the nineteenth century
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...
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,...
Steve Weinshel on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Steve Weinshel is the maternal great-great-great grandson of Dr. Godfrey Howitt (1800-1873), the younger brother of author William Howitt (1792-1879). Weinshel shares events from the lives of his distant uncle and aunt, William and Mary Botham Howitt, who were Victorian writers, journalists, translators, and adventurers,...
“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”...
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