Tag: Bleak House
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff—TV Christmas Special Review
This post is contributed by Mads Golding. Mads is a playwright and writer currently pursuing an MA in English literature at Loyola University, Chicago. Her research interests include Dickens, Shakespeare, and theater. Mads currently serves as a member of the communications committee for The 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/ ...
#Dickens150: The First Global Online Gathering for Dickens
This conference report has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her most recent posts here and here. June 9 will definitely go down in the history of Dickens studies since it marked the first online large-scale zoom conference. #Dickens150, organized...
Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Prof Matthias Bauer (Karls Eberhard University, Tübingen, Germany) and Asst Prof Angelika Zirker (Karls Eberhard University) have each published on the work of Charles Dickens individually, publishing several papers in collaboration. Bauer did his PhD on “David Copperfield” (1850) and has produced a number of...
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...
Finding Bleak House in Martin Chuzzlewit
This post has been contributed by Matthew Redmond. As many of us know too well, The Modern Library prefaces every Dickens novel with a three-page headnote titled “Charles Dickens,” which strives to outline certain crucial moments of his life and career. Perhaps the biggest turning...
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Dickens and the Underdog
This post has been contributed by Catherine Burgass, a Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at Staffordshire University with a specialism in local literary studies. She also teaches at Keele University Continuing Education. The use of animal metaphors for mechanical or human subjects is a common...
Past, Present, and Future: The Dickensian (Christmas) Spirit
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk. In The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge (1990), Paul Davis argues that A Christmas Carol adapts itself to each historical era; that is, since its publication subsequent generations of readers, play-goers, listeners, and viewers have been...
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