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Hugo Bowles on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel

Dr Hugo Bowles (Associate Prof of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata) pursues many research interests, such as applied linguistics, particularly stylistics, English for specific purposes, and language education. Bowles’s latest book “Dickens and the Stenographic Mind”...

How Dickens’s dwarf inspired Nabokov

Contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s post on the reception of Dickens’s Christmas stories in Russia here. While Charles Dickens often turned to topics of charity and justice for the underprivileged in his novels, stories and articles, the prose of...

Help us solve the savage stenographic mystery of “The Two Brothers”

Hugo Bowles and Daniele Metilli Hugo is an applied linguist and associate professor of English at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and has been researching and writing about Dickens’s shorthand for the last three years. His book Dickens and the Stenographic Mind will be...

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...
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).