International Dickens
Diana C. Archibald on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr. Diana C. Archibald (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Dickens Society member/former officer) discusses her work and perceptions of “American Notes for General Circulation” (1842) by Charles Dickens on the related subjects of incarceration and slavery. She also mentions the 2012 “Dickens in...
Looking for Walter Landor Dickens
Contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School, Early College On his 52 birthday (7 February, 1864) Charles Dickens received word that his son, Walter Landor, had died in India on 31 December 1863. A few days later Dickens described the circumstances of Walter’s death in...
Opium, Muffins, and Tea: The Setting of Nicholas Nickleby
This post has been contributed by Dano Cammarota. As a rule, and often unconsciously, I approach literature from a historical perspective. It is my comfort zone and understandably the works of Charles Dickens provide a plethora of history woven seamlessly into the narrative. At the...
CULTIVATING THE FUTURE OF DICKENS SCHOLARSHIP
THE 24TH ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM STUDENT WORKSHOPS This post has been contributed by Katherine J. Kim (Assistant Professor of English, Molloy College). From July 26th-29th, 2019, the 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium was held in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah at the Hotel Monaco. During...
The Dickens Society on YouTube
The Dickens Society has a new YouTube channel, which can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQ-rsLWgE1DRSncE97iUdg. In the coming weeks, we will feature a Spotlight series that presents ongoing research projects by Dickensian scholars. Filmed during the 2018 Tübingen, Germany conference at Karls Eberhard University, the following interviewees...
Walking Fast and Far: Dickens, Europe, and Restless Pedestrianism
This post has been contributed by Edward Grimble. Writing to his friend—and later biographer—John Forster in 1854, Dickens confessed that ‘if I couldn’t walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish’ (Letters, vol 7, 429). Throughout his life Dickens remained a dizzyingly energetic...
Dickens in Algeria: Mouloud Feraoun’s Fidelity to Charles Dickens
Contributed by Abderrezzaq Ghafsi, a postgraduate research student based in the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Abderrezzaq is a member of the 19th Century Studies Group, Dickens Society and Dickens Fellowship at Cambridge University. His research is on Dickens in the Arabic...
Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts
“There are some places here,—oh Heaven how fine! I wish you could see the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio as it lies before me at this moment, on the opposite bank of the Arno! But I will tell you more about it, and about all...
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