Tag: Our Mutual Friend
After Dickens: His Influences in Fiction 1879-1914
This piece is contributed by Tom Hubbard, a former Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut and Professeur invité at the University of Grenoble. He has been an Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Hubbard’s article Heart and...
London Tide – A Review
This post is contributed by Deborah Siddoway, a PhD candidate at Durham University and a novelist, whose debut novel Dark Waters, is published on 12 September 2024 by Bloodhound Books. This review is based on my visit to the National Theatre for the evening performance...
“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...
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....
“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...
A New Dickensian Venture
“I heard some voices, familiar in my ears I thought” Bleak House, ch. 37 The Dickens Society is excited to announce their latest venture in all things Dickensian, this one carefully curated for your ears, and thus for your walks, commutes, and relaxation. That’s right,...
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