CFP: Write for The Dickens Society Blog!
The Dickens Society Blog is under new editorship! Dr Katie Bell and Michelle Crowther (not pictured in the illustration above) are looking for engaging submissions from scholars at all career stages on any aspect of Dickensian research. We particularly welcome posts from researchers new to...
The Tell-Tale Sign of the Dickensian Influence: Dickens and Poe
Katie Bell holds a PhD in English from the University of Leicester. She can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/decadentdickens and on https://www.notions-nineteenth.com/ Dickens’s works are most associated with hearth and home, goodwill to one’s neighbors and the value of conviviality. His more macabre storylines are sometimes...
Louisa’s Spiritual Awakening: Temptation, Abstinence, and the Female Recovery Narrative in Hard Times
Contributed by Katie Brandt Sartain, Graduate Researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Twitter @bratie_kandt There is no shortage of drinkers, druggers, and over-imbibers in the Dickensian canon. From Sydney Carton and his bumpers of rum to John Jasper’s ravenous opium habit to the destitution...
Call for Blog Co-Editor
The Dickens Society is currently accepting applications for co-editor of our blog. Any interested parties should email their qualifications to Dr. Catherine Quirk at: Quirkc@edgehill.ac.uk The Society is interested in growing the blog to become a more open-source platform for researchers at any stage of...
Tribute to David Paroissien, Long-time DS Member and Former DQ Editor
Tributes and condolences for family and friends can be left by clicking the “Comment” link above, to the right of the date. David Paroissien died peacefully, reading a book at ten in the evening on 8 September 2021, at his home in Oxford....
Dispatches from the 26th Symposium: Charles Dickens and Peter Pitchlynn
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. Recent years have seen significant scholarly interest in Dickens and race, a trend continued by the 2021 Virtual Dickens Symposium, which featured multiple papers analyzing Dickens’s works in the context of racial issues. While these papers...
In Conversation With: Dr Chris Louttit
Chris Louttit is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He is the current Vice-President of the Dickens Society, having served previously as a Trustee and been a frequent participant at Dickens Society Symposia since 2004. His PhD was on...
Call for 2021 Dickens Society Symposium Bursary Applications
Call for 2021 Dickens Society Symposium Bursary Applications The Dickens Society annually provides bursaries of to support the scholarly development of graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. Though our symposium is virtual this year, we will be offering a modest bursary of...
Anti-racism Statement of the Charles Dickens Society
In light of the murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, the even more recent shooting of Jacob Blake, and the other unconscionable acts of violence inflicted lately and too routinely upon members of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities...
Dental Afterlives: Dickens and Victorian Dentistry
This post is contributed by Eleanor C. Faulkner, PhD student in the department of English and Drama at Queen Mary University, London. Our culture has inherited unsavoury dental practitioners. These include those pilloried by Charlie Chaplin’s silent film ‘Laughing Gas’ (1914), the films Marathon Man...
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