Influence of Dickens
Illustrating Bleak House
This post is contributed by Gerry Mooney, a (now retired) commercial artist and illustrator from New York. Mooney is also a longtime Charles Dickens fan and he has embarked on a project to illustrate Dickens’s great Bleak House. Mooney can be found online https://gerrymooneyillustratingdickens.com/ ...
Great Expectations and Furnace Creek: A Serendipitous Match
Contributed by Joseph A. Boone, PhD, author of Furnace Creek and Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Great Expectations crossed with the American South of the 1960s? Pip as a proto-queer youth, caught pleasuring himself on a Civil War relic...
“In Defense of Scrooge:” A Brief History
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. In early December, a screenshot of a fake London Times article by “Dickie Canine” circulated on social media for a few days. The “article” in question featured an image of Jim Carrey as Scrooge clinging to...
Connecting the Dots…
This post is contributed by our new blog co-editor, Michelle Crowther. Michelle is a Learning and Research Librarian at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent and also a PhD candidate. She can be found on Twitter at @HumLib_cccu. My research is in writing groups and...
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...
Dispatches from the 26th Symposium: Charles Dickens and Peter Pitchlynn
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. Recent years have seen significant scholarly interest in Dickens and race, a trend continued by the 2021 Virtual Dickens Symposium, which featured multiple papers analyzing Dickens’s works in the context of racial issues. While these papers...
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,...
Dickens Possibly Influenced “Sweeney Todd”
By Herb Moskovitz. Reprinted with kind permission of the author and David Perdue’s The Charles Dickens Page. In Philadelphia there is a wonderful walk-through exhibit of A Christmas Carol in Macy’s on Market Street. There are three-dimensional tableaus of scenes from the classic story and in the...
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