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Tag: Hard Times

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...

“Confess this minute … that you did it to correct and amend me!”: Gaslighting in Dickens’s Novels

This post is contributed by Dr. Katherine J. Kim, assistant professor at Molloy University in New York. Katherine’s other recent projects have been book chapters and articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Catherine Crowe.  In the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year...

“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...

Louisa’s Spiritual Awakening: Temptation, Abstinence, and the Female Recovery Narrative in Hard Times

Contributed by Katie Brandt Sartain, Graduate Researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Twitter @bratie_kandt There is no shortage of drinkers, druggers, and over-imbibers in the Dickensian canon. From Sydney Carton and his bumpers of rum to John Jasper’s ravenous opium habit to the destitution...
The Dickens Society

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).