Tag: Intertextuality


The Tell-Tale Sign of the Dickensian Influence: Dickens and Poe


Katie Bell holds a PhD in English from the University of Leicester. She can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/decadentdickens and on https://www.notions-nineteenth.com/ Dickens’s works are most associated with hearth and home, goodwill to one’s neighbors and the value of conviviality. His more macabre storylines are sometimes...

Into the Dickens-Verse, pt. 2


This is the second part of Christian Lehmann’s analysis of how Into the Spider-Verse engages with Great Expectations. To read part one, click here. When we left off last time, we had set up a number of ways in which Great Expectations appears throughout Spider-Verse. In this installment,...

Into the Dickens-Verse


This post has been contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School Early College, Cleveland. Read his previous contribution here.  On January 16th 2019 I wrote a Twitter thread about Great Expectations in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I am grateful for the Dickens Society communications team...