Adapting Dickens

London Tide – A Review

This post is contributed by Deborah Siddoway, a PhD candidate at Durham University and a novelist, whose debut novel Dark Waters, is published on 12 September 2024 by Bloodhound Books. This review is based on my visit to the National Theatre for the evening performance...

Those ‘Dark Spirits’ Within Us: Interpretive Power & the Legacy of Fandom

This post is contributed by AV Nordgren (they/them), a last-semester graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying Library & Information Science with a focus on archives and special collections. Is Little Dorrit’s Miss Wade a lesbian? Or is reading her as such...

The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Presents “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens–a Theatre Review

Kareem Bandealy as Jacob Marley and Larry Yando as Ebenezer Scrooge in Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Tom Creamer. Photo: Liz Lauren This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens...

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,...

Article in Progress: “Then, I go among the Germans”: Klein Dorrit (1934)

This post has been contributed by Andrea Schmidt, who is currently a Visiting Instructor of German at Willamette University. She has research interests in nineteenth century British/German literatures and contemporary film. In an era of rising nationalism, a Czech born director brought an adaptation of...

Dickensian Afterlives through Adaptation

This post has been contributed by Maureen England. With a topic like Dickens and Adaptation, the annual Dickens Society symposium was sure to include discussions of the myriad ways in which Dickens, his works, and his characters live outside of Dickens’s control and his own...