Tag: Dickens
Call for Expressions of Interest: Dickens Quarterly Editorship
The Dickens Society, in consultation with the Dickens Quarterly Editorial Board, solicits expressions of interest in the role of editor for the Dickens Quarterly. David Paroissien, who has served the journal as editor with inimitable commitment, wisdom, and élan since 1983, has announced that he...
Dickens and Germany, Germany and Dickens
This post has been contributed by Katherine Kim. In July and August of 2018, the Dickens Society Symposium was held for the first time in Germany. As Natalie J. McKnight noted in her remarks on the first day of the event, Charles Dickens in fact...
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 Society Blog: Call for Posts
At the end of July, the 23rd Dickens Society Symposium will be held at Tübingen University. More information can be found here. The research context at Tübingen links literary studies with linguistics. Hence, the conference invites papers on Dickens and Language, including (but not limited...
Enthralling Expectations: The Dark Dreamscape of Satis House
Contributed by Anne Nagel, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln doctoral student researching the affective intensity of sleep and dreams in nineteenth-century British literature. I challenge you to find a Dickens novel that fails to employ multiple dreams, an intense dreamlike state, or at the very least,...
Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts
The Dickens Society blog is aimed at disseminating Dickensian research both amongst the Society’s membership and to the larger academic community. We welcome ongoing submissions from researchers at any career level on any topic relating to Dickens’s life, work, or world – if you would...
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...
Dickens and Dog-Drama: the Walworth Dog meets the Uncommercial Traveller
This post has been contributed by Dr Ann Featherstone (University of Manchester). Dickens is well-known for his love of theatre, whether it was Christmas treats at Drury Lane or a bloody melodrama at the Victoria Theatre in the New Cut. But in the guise of...
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