Tag: Germany


Dickens and Language: The 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium


This post has been contributed by Bethan Carney and Carolyn Gonzalez At the tail end of July 2018, in a blistering heatwave,  more than 80Dickens Society members converged on the picturesque town of Tübingen, Germany for the 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium. Travelling from all...

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...

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...

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...

Article in Progress: “Then, I go among the Germans”: Klein Dorrit (1934)


This post has been contributed by Andrea Schmidt, who is currently a Visiting Instructor of German at Willamette University. She has research interests in nineteenth century British/German literatures and contemporary film.  In an era of rising nationalism, a Czech born director brought an adaptation of...