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Tag: The Old Curiosity Shop

Through the Coffee-Room Glass: Dickens and the Origins of Modern Fantasy

This post is contributed by Dr. Christian Dickinson, Assistant Professor of English at Brewton-Parker College. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the England described by Shakespeare as “This other Eden, demi-paradise”, had been completely transfigured (855). Factories covered the landscape, eradicating the once natural...

Escape to the country: Dickens in rural England

This post is contributed by Catherine Peck, a PhD research student in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research explores the cultural and social history of the English country cottage and how it is represented in nineteenth-century literature. Her research is supported by...

Dickens Re-Focused: Hebden Bridge Artists Suggest New Ways to Interpret Classics

  In this post, Catherine Quirk (@quirk_catherine) interviews Melinda Joy Chantler and Clare Lupino of Arcanum in Hebden Bridge about their collaborative Treated Books project. In their most recent work, they interpret Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1) by collaboratively drawing into the pages....
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).