“We’ve gone on holiday by mistake”: Dickens’s journeys to small English towns
This post is contributed by Dr. Katie Bell , co-editor of the Dickens Society Blog. If you have read Pictures from Italy or American Notes, you may have gotten the impression that Dickens was a bit of a grumpy traveller. This is something with which...
CFP: “Portrayals of the Working Class in Dickens and Lawrence”
The Dickens Society and the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America invite papers for a joint panel on this topic. Papers comparing the two writers are especially welcome. Abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief curriculum vitae. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 19 March 2022 MLA...
“Gather the fragments up so that nothing can be lost”: Charles Dickens, Grannie Herbert and a “run to Redcar”
This post is contributed by our new blog co-editor, Michelle Crowther. Michelle is a Learning and Research Librarian at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent and also a PhD candidate. She can be found on Twitter at @HumLib_cccu. Dickens was an avid traveller: both before...
Great Expectations and Furnace Creek: A Serendipitous Match
Contributed by Joseph A. Boone, PhD, author of Furnace Creek and Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Great Expectations crossed with the American South of the 1960s? Pip as a proto-queer youth, caught pleasuring himself on a Civil War relic...
“In Defense of Scrooge:” A Brief History
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. In early December, a screenshot of a fake London Times article by “Dickie Canine” circulated on social media for a few days. The “article” in question featured an image of Jim Carrey as Scrooge clinging to...
Connecting the Dots…
This post is contributed by our new blog co-editor, Michelle Crowther. Michelle is a Learning and Research Librarian at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent and also a PhD candidate. She can be found on Twitter at @HumLib_cccu. My research is in writing groups and...
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...
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