Forthcoming publication: American Notes
American Notes by Charles Dickens, with an introduction by Diana C. Archibald (Universitas Press, 2018), forthcoming May 22 2018. This is a scholarly edition, annotated and illustrated, addressing the modern reader. Dickens fans and students will find the most balanced approach to annotate and contextualize...
Walking Fast and Far: Dickens, Europe, and Restless Pedestrianism
This post has been contributed by Edward Grimble. Writing to his friend—and later biographer—John Forster in 1854, Dickens confessed that ‘if I couldn’t walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish’ (Letters, vol 7, 429). Throughout his life Dickens remained a dizzyingly energetic...
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...
Call for Articles: My Victorian Novel (Edited Collection)
Isobel Armstrong has lamented that the way we teach the Victorian novel, with enthusiasm and delight, is so different from the way we criticize it. I wonder if this is also partially true about the way we really read and experience Victorian novels, if there...
Dickens in Algeria: Mouloud Feraoun’s Fidelity to Charles Dickens
Contributed by Abderrezzaq Ghafsi, a postgraduate research student based in the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Abderrezzaq is a member of the 19th Century Studies Group, Dickens Society and Dickens Fellowship at Cambridge University. His research is on Dickens in the Arabic...
Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts
“There are some places here,—oh Heaven how fine! I wish you could see the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio as it lies before me at this moment, on the opposite bank of the Arno! But I will tell you more about it, and about all...
Enthralling Expectations: The Dark Dreamscape of Satis House
Contributed by Anne Nagel, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln doctoral student researching the affective intensity of sleep and dreams in nineteenth-century British literature. I challenge you to find a Dickens novel that fails to employ multiple dreams, an intense dreamlike state, or at the very least,...
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....
“He may just go to the Devil”: The Stormy Collaboration of Dickens and Cruikshank
This post has been contributed by Laurena Tsudama. In a letter to his publisher John Macrone on October 19, 1836, the young author Charles Dickens wrote: “I have long believed Cruikshank to be mad; and his letter therefore, surprises me, not a jot. If you...
Dickens Day 2017
This post has been contributed by Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott, a PhD researcher studying magicians, both fictional and real, and conjuring in the nineteenth century. Find her on Twitter @beeashlell. Saturday 14th October saw a full house gather for the annual Dickens Day conference at Senate House...
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