The Dickens Society

Tag: incarceration

American Notes, Universitas Press, Diana C. Archibald

Diana C. Archibald on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel

Dr. Diana C. Archibald (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Dickens Society member/former officer) discusses her work and perceptions of “American Notes for General Circulation” (1842) by Charles Dickens on the related subjects of incarceration and slavery. She also mentions the 2012 “Dickens in...

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...
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).