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Tag: Dombey and Son

Through the Coffee-Room Glass: Dickens and the Origins of Modern Fantasy

This post is contributed by Dr. Christian Dickinson, Assistant Professor of English at Brewton-Parker College. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the England described by Shakespeare as “This other Eden, demi-paradise”, had been completely transfigured (855). Factories covered the landscape, eradicating the once natural...

“where the things that might have been, and never were, are always wandering:” The Fireside and Subjectivity

This post was contributed by Céleste Callen, a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research focuses on time and subjective temporal experience in Dickens’s fiction, by reading his fiction through the lens of Henri Bergson’s philosophy. She can be found on Twitter...

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...

Forthcoming article: ‘Names in Dickens: The Trouble with Dombey‘

NAMES IN DICKENS: THE TROUBLE WITH DOMBEY Stephen B. Dobranski Modern Philology 114.2 (2016), pp. 388–410. Attendees of the 2016 Dickens Universe, which focused on Dombey and Son, may be particularly interested in this forthcoming article by Stephen B. Dobranski: “Critics and readers have long...
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The purpose of the Dickens Society is to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870).