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Bleak House, Looking Outward, and Dickens at NAVSA
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk. See her previous posts here and here. The theme for this year’s North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference, held in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida from 11-14 October, was “Looking Outward.” On first glance, this would seem...
The Lost Portrait
This post has been contributed by Dr. Katie Bell. Read her previous posts here and here. In describing Charles Dickens’s eyes, Frederic George Kitton discovered so many diverse opinions that he concluded Dickens’s eyes must have had “chameleon-like qualities.”[1] Kitton explains that some accounts told...
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...
Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts
The Dickens Society Blog aims to disseminate Dickensian research amongst the Society’s membership, the larger academic community, and the interested public. We welcome ongoing submissions from researchers at any career level on any topic relating to Dickens’s life, work, or world – if you would...
“Revising” Dickens: The Author as Scrooge in Oak Park Festival’s A Dickens Carol
Contributed by Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago A recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, entitled A Dickens Carol and directed by Kevin Theis, just experienced its second run at Oak Park Festival Theatre in Chicago, IL in December 2018. Playwright...
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