The Magic of Dickens’s Southwark
This post has been contributed by Amanda Harvey Purse. When we think of ‘Dickens’s London’, we may not instantly think of the borough of Southwark. This district however, packed a powerful punch for him, so much so that it played a vital role in Charles’s...
Call for Papers: The 25th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
OUR DICKENS: DICKENS AND HIS PUBLICS 17th-19th July 2020, Bloomsbury, London In 2020, the 150-year anniversary of Dickens’s death, the annual Dickens Society Symposium will take place in Bloomsbury, Dickens’s home for periods of time and where he produced some of his most memorable...
Hugo Bowles on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr Hugo Bowles (Associate Prof of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata) pursues many research interests, such as applied linguistics, particularly stylistics, English for specific purposes, and language education. Bowles’s latest book “Dickens and the Stenographic Mind”...
Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Prof Matthias Bauer (Karls Eberhard University, Tübingen, Germany) and Asst Prof Angelika Zirker (Karls Eberhard University) have each published on the work of Charles Dickens individually, publishing several papers in collaboration. Bauer did his PhD on “David Copperfield” (1850) and has produced a number of...
Bleak House, Looking Outward, and Dickens at NAVSA
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk. See her previous posts here and here. The theme for this year’s North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference, held in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida from 11-14 October, was “Looking Outward.” On first glance, this would seem...
If He Could Turn Back Time: Scrooge’s Missing Hours in A Christmas Carol
Contributed by Christian Sidney Dickinson, Baptist College of Florida At the end of the First Stave of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol (1843), a disturbed Scrooge, after having conversed with the ghost of his long-departed (we know better than to say ‘dear’) business...
Call for Interview Participants at the 24th Annual Dickens Symposium
The 24th Annual Dickens Symposium Utah Valley University Salt Lake City, Utah 26-28 July 2019 Overview: A series of filmed interviews will be uploaded to the Dickens Society’s official YouTube channel and advertised on its social media accounts following the conference.These short videos will highlight...
Don’t miss Jeremy Parrott on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
In the newest Dickens film on our YouTube channel, Dr. Jeremy Parrott (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Buckingham) describes his process of establishing the authorship and writing the biographies of formerly unknown or obscure contributors to Charles Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round. After famously...
Dickens and Language: The 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium
This post has been contributed by Bethan Carney and Carolyn Gonzalez At the tail end of July 2018, in a blistering heatwave, more than 80Dickens Society members converged on the picturesque town of Tübingen, Germany for the 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium. Travelling from all...
The Lost Portrait
This post has been contributed by Dr. Katie Bell. Read her previous posts here and here. In describing Charles Dickens’s eyes, Frederic George Kitton discovered so many diverse opinions that he concluded Dickens’s eyes must have had “chameleon-like qualities.”[1] Kitton explains that some accounts told...
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