CALL FOR PAPERS: 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 26-28, 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT
In July 2019, Dickens goes west, and into the mountains! The 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, co-sponsored by the Dickens Society and Utah Valley University. Proposals from scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students on any topic related...
Help us solve the savage stenographic mystery of “The Two Brothers”
Hugo Bowles and Daniele Metilli Hugo is an applied linguist and associate professor of English at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and has been researching and writing about Dickens’s shorthand for the last three years. His book Dickens and the Stenographic Mind will be...
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...
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