Tag: Nicholas Nickleby
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....
“We’ve gone on holiday by mistake”: Dickens’s journeys to small English towns
This post is contributed by Dr. Katie Bell , co-editor of the Dickens Society Blog. If you have read Pictures from Italy or American Notes, you may have gotten the impression that Dickens was a bit of a grumpy traveller. This is something with which...
Opium, Muffins, and Tea: The Setting of Nicholas Nickleby
This post has been contributed by Dano Cammarota. As a rule, and often unconsciously, I approach literature from a historical perspective. It is my comfort zone and understandably the works of Charles Dickens provide a plethora of history woven seamlessly into the narrative. At the...
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