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A New Heart for the New Year: Dickens, Renewal, and the Victorian Tradition of Transformation

This post is contributed by Melisa Kaya, a graduate with honors in English and Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s University, Canada. As a writer, editor, and researcher, her primary research examines the intersection of literature and science, exploring their mutual influence. Additionally, Melisa engages in...

Crossing the Borders: Windows and Thresholds in Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s

This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Find the second part here. Dickens in the Christmas stories of the 1840s uses specific frame images, many of...

Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel

Prof Matthias Bauer (Karls Eberhard University, Tübingen, Germany) and Asst Prof Angelika Zirker (Karls Eberhard University) have each published on the work of Charles Dickens individually, publishing several papers in collaboration. Bauer did his PhD on “David Copperfield” (1850) and has produced a number of...
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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).