Tag: Great Expectations
Dickens’s Desk-World of “little familiar objects”
This post was contributed by Pratibha Rai, an interdisciplinary graduate from the University of Oxford. Her research area is in the visual world of literature and the ways in which authors apply material objects, illustration, and their own aesthetic sensibilities to shape meaning in narratives....
“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...
Great Expectations and Furnace Creek: A Serendipitous Match
Contributed by Joseph A. Boone, PhD, author of Furnace Creek and Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Great Expectations crossed with the American South of the 1960s? Pip as a proto-queer youth, caught pleasuring himself on a Civil War relic...
Tribute to David Paroissien, Long-time DS Member and Former DQ Editor
Tributes and condolences for family and friends can be left by clicking the “Comment” link above, to the right of the date. David Paroissien died peacefully, reading a book at ten in the evening on 8 September 2021, at his home in Oxford....
Leslie Simon on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr. Leslie Simon (Chair, Philosophy and Humanities, Utah Valley University), discusses one of her current projects on possible connections between the character Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861) and a contemporary Victorian debate over the Indian practice of sati/suttee, self-immolation practiced by some...
Dickens and the Carceral Archipelago
This post has been contributed by Spencer Dodd, University of Wisconsin-Stout. See more posts in response to the 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium here and here. Prisons loom large in the landscapes of Dickens, standing as discrete, foreboding edifices within the quintessentially “Dickensian” backdrop of...
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,...
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