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Contributors to this Issue Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors to this Issue Michelle Allen-Emerson is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where she has taught since 2003. Publications include Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London (Ohio UP, 2008) and the multi-volume edited collection of primary source material Sanitary Reform in Victorian
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Dickens and His Publics Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Michelle Allen-Emerson, Annette Federico
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dickens and His Publics Michelle Allen-Emerson (bio) and Annette Federico (bio) When Charles Dickens died on 7 June 1870, the outpouring of public feeling all but drowned out the tempered judgements of Victorian literary critics and reviewers: it was not the moment for “exact criticism,” as Anthony Trollope put it. “It is fatuous to condemn
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Dickensian Dimensions: A Transatlantic Dialogue Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Philip Davis
Abstract: “Dickensian Dimensions” makes use of Dickens’s manuscript revisions to uncover the extra dimensions of emotional depth and temporal complexity that his sentences acquire in the immediate midst of composition. When the effects of those little changes were offered to a group of serious ordinary readers in the UK, their responses to selected passages from David Copperfield showed how much the
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Big Novels for Little Folks: Dickens Adapted, Abridged, and Excerpted for Young Readers Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Kirsten Andersen
Abstract: Classic novels retold for children have received limited scholarly attention. Often cheaply printed, the interest they arouse is also transient: child readers become adults and either lose interest or move on to the unabridged text. Despite their transience and ephemerality, “classic” novels rewritten for children, especially retellings of Dickens, merit scholarly examination. These retellings
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Done with Dickens Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jude Piesse
Abstract: This article brings a creative–critical approach to bear on my long, and evolving, relationship with Dickens. Through examining the tenacious grip that Dickens has had on my imaginative, emotional, and professional lives, I explore the conundrum of continuing to admire a writer whose ubiquity, personal history, and even style can sometimes cause embarrassment to contemporary publics. In the
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Full Havisham Effect Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mary Mullen
Abstract: Reflecting on Miss Havisham, one of the most famous ghosts in the marriage plot, this personal essay considers the importance of having space to grieve. While living as a lodger in my colleague’s home after ending my marriage, I dreamed of Miss Havisham’s Satis House: a space of my own where I could decay alongside the scraps, fragments, and stuff that makes a life. But when I moved into
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Bent and Broken Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sean Grass
Abstract: This essay reflects on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and what it has meant, and continues to mean, to me as a reader and scholar of Dickens. Beginning from the observation that students seem invariably to detest Pip, the essay explains how reading the novel hermeneutically, as a lesson for my own life, has helped me to ruminate the complex feelings of shame that I have long felt regarding
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A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Eric G. Lorentzen
Abstract: Only by recognizing that Dickens’s novels not only teach us a great deal about Victorian England, but also about our lives in the here and now, can we remain vibrantly one of Dickens’s “publics.” We must transcend the usual “wisdom of the head,” the traditional academic study of his novels, and connect with the “wisdom of the heart” as well, the meaningful student-centred ways that his texts
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Teaching and Reading Dickens in Brazil: A Tale of Two Cities as a Case Study Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Marcela Santos Brigida
Abstract: Taking the experience of teaching Dickens in Brazil as a point of departure, this essay proposes a brief overview of the novelist’s initial reception in the South American country as part of an ongoing investigation of his multi-layered influence on Brazilian culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Dickens’s impact on Brazilian publishing and pop culture ranges from the many
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"Cancelled" by the Revolution?: The Limits of Celebrity in A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Elizabeth Bridgham
Abstract: Inspired by a teaching experience in which a group of students equated the mob violence of the French Revolution with the contemporary phenomenon of “cancel culture,” this article considers the ways in which Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities incorporates a consideration of the foundations and limits of celebrity power. By examining contemporary studies of the history and significance of “cancellation
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Hair Apparent; or, Dickens's Public Hair Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Natalie McKnight
Abstract: Dickens plays off the strange hybrid nature of hair throughout his fiction. Hair is both alive and dead, public but also private, part of and not part of the body. Dickens uses hair to create both comedy and pathos, and it projects key aspects of many characters while simultaneously defying their control. Through hair, Dickens raises epistemological questions about the human tendency to categorize
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Leslie S. Simon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox Leslie S. Simon (bio) Renée Fox. The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature. Ohio State UP, 2023. Pp. x + 267. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1549-4 (hb). Tucked
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Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing by Lucinda Hawksley (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Nathalie Vanfasse
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing by Lucinda Hawksley Nathalie Vanfasse (bio) Lucinda Hawksley. Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing. Pen and Sword History, 2022. Pp. 270. £22.00. ISBN 978-1-52673-563-8 (hb). Dickens and Travel: the Start of Modern Travel Writing was written by Lucinda
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Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Lawrence Goldman (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Lawrence Goldman Dominic Rainsford (bio) Lawrence Goldman. Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain. Oxford UP, 2022. Pp. lxiii + 371. £40.49. ISBN 978-0-19-284774-4 (hb). One might be forgiven for expecting
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The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford (bio) The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online resources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available
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Contributors to this Issue Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors to this Issue Adam Abraham is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell College, in Iowa. He is the author of Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He is also the author of Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of
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Pickwick and Scrooge: Two Excellent Men of Business Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Tara Moore
Abstract: Created six years apart, Scrooge and Pickwick exhibit extraordinary similarities in their backgrounds and plot trajectories. Scrooge and Pickwick start out as relatively isolated businessmen who make journeys of discovery and learn lessons in compassion. Their metamorphoses are deepened through their relationships with loyal employees. This article explores the scant details about the two
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"It was a strange figure": The Fairies of A Christmas Carol Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Joshua Dobbs
Abstract: With Marley's death emphatically declared in the opening pages of A Christmas Carol, his subsequent appearance clearly defines him as a Victorian ghost. However, the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and To Come conform to no such definition. Dickens never definitively reveals what they are, despite offering lengthy physical descriptions. There exists, as of yet, no thorough investigation
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Jaggers the Plotter and the Pretty Child: Masculine Vulnerability to Beauty in Great Expectations Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sara Martín
Abstract: This article examines the role of the criminal lawyer Mr. Jaggers in Great Expectations, arguing that beyond his function as the hidden link between Miss Havisham and Abel Magwitch, his masculine vulnerability before the pretty little child who becomes Estella is an essential plot element. Jaggers's decision to save this child from poverty, and perhaps prostitution, characterizes the lawyer
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"The wife who has plagued him … & … is rather lunatical": A Contemporary Private Reference to the Dickens Scandal Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 William F. Long
Abstract: A short commentary by the poet Arthur Hugh Clough on the gossip surrounding the breakdown of the Dickens marriage in a letter to an American friend in June 1858 provides a glimpse of how it appeared to one literary Londoner not having a close personal acquaintance with the family. The information (and misinformation) Clough drew on appears to include material derived from Dickens's as then
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Dickens, Death, and Christmas by Robert L. Patten (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Natalie J. McKnight
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dickens, Death, and Christmas by Robert L. Patten Natalie J. McKnight (bio) Robert L. Patten. Dickens, Death, and Christmas. Oxford UP, 2023. Pp. xx + 344. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-286266-2 (hb). In this beautifully illustrated, richly contextualized study, Robert Patten traces the often surprising and deeply-rooted connections
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The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention by Garrett Stewart (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Tamsin Evernden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention by Garrett Stewart Tamsin Evernden (bio) Garrett Stewart. The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention. Cornell UP, 2021. Pp. i + 239. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-6140-9 (pb). Garrett Stewart's eighteenth book has a doubly self-reflexive thesis. Building upon previous work
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Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority by Peter J. Katz (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Christian Lehmann
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority by Peter J. Katz Christian Lehmann (bio) Peter J. Katz. Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority. Edinburgh UP, 2022. Pp. vii + 248. $110.00; £85.00. ISBN 978-1-474-47620-1 (hb). The opening participle
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The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880 by Anna A. Berman (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Renata Goroshkova
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880 by Anna A. Berman Renata Goroshkova (bio) Anna A. Berman. The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880. Oxford UP, 2023. Pp. x + 272. $101.99. ISBN 978-0-19-286662-2 (hb). Berman explains the relevance and importance of this book by the fact that she is fighting against
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Screening Charles Dickens: A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations by William Farina (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Adam Abraham
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Screening Charles Dickens: A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations by William Farina Adam Abraham (bio) William Farina. Screening Charles Dickens: A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations. McFarland and Company, 2022. Pp. viii + 236. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-4766-8567-0 (pb). The topic of Dickens and film is a promising one
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The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online resources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available
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The Dickens Society Prizes Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Society Prizes The David Paroissien Prize The David Paroissien Prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. The Prize is named for David Paroissien, a founding member of the Dickens Society and also the founder of Dickens Quarterly, which he edited from its
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"Accidents will happen": Dickens's Comical Mishaps Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Tamara S. Wagner
Abstract: This article critically unpacks the complex narrative potential that mishaps fulfil in Dickens’s fiction. It parses the way comedy works in his depiction of the various accidents of daily life and explores how their shifting narrative functions influentially shaped the representation of personal misfortune and social ethics at a time that saw competing interpretative frameworks of why accidents
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"Fact" versus "Fancy" among Victorian Professionals in Hard Times Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Masayo Hasegawa
Abstract: Mid-19th-century England saw the expansion and growth of professionalism. Read in this context, Hard Times (1854) can be construed as a critique of both Victorian professionals in general and literary professionals in particular, specifically novelists. Thomas Gradgrind emerges as a representative of contemporary fact-oriented professionals, and fiction writers turn out to be their antithesis
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Charles Dickens & Sir Philip Sidney: Hard Times, An Equine Defence for the Novel Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Dana Pines
Abstract: While critics have often read Hard Times as Dickens’s defense of imagination against utilitarianism, industrialism, and the fact-driven education of his time, the source of Dickens’s defensive theory and poetics has remained comparatively obscure. This article will argue that Dickens, in his attempt to defend imaginative literature, invokes Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century Defence of
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The Juvenalian Satire of Our Mutual Friend Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Jennifer Judge
Abstract: This essay argues that Dickens rejected the Victorian literary consensus that satire, especially in its extravagant Juvenalian form, was unsuited to the novel. In several prefaces, he positions satire’s magnifying aesthetic of “extreme exposition” as an ideal mode for disrupting readers’ preconceptions. In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens forcefully revives Juvenal’s rhetorical overabundance and
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Boz, New York and a Temperance Aphorism Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 William F. Long
Abstract: Visiting America in 1842, Dickens found the problem of drunkenness in the process of being vigorously addressed. He was questioned about the prevalence of alcohol consumption in his fiction and criticized for an inferred less than totally serious regard for America’s efforts to confront the problem by promoting abstinence. His response was to question the logic and potential effectiveness
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First Person Narrative and the Mind by Tyson Stolte (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Jeremy Tambling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First Person Narrative and the Mind by Tyson Stolte Jeremy Tambling (bio) Tyson Stolte. Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First Person Narrative and the Mind. Oxford UP, 2022. Pp. viii + 276. $90.00 ISBN: 978-0-19-28542-9 (hb). This, a serious, hard-working and
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Goethe und Dickens als christliche Dichter by Vittorio Hösle (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Norbert Lennartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Goethe und Dickens als christliche Dichter by Vittorio Hösle Norbert Lennartz (bio) Vittorio Hösle. Goethe und Dickens als christliche Dichter. Verlag Karl Alber, 2022. 232 pp. €49.00. 978-3-495-49225-3. Comparing Goethe and Dickens and bracketing them as Christian writers, Vittorio Hösle’s book raises quite a few expectations
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Queer Economic Dissidence and Victorian Literature by Meg Dobbins (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 James Eli Adams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Queer Economic Dissidence and Victorian Literature by Meg Dobbins James Eli Adams (bio) Meg Dobbins. Queer Economic Dissidence and Victorian Literature. Ohio State UP, 2022. Pp. viii + 187. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-814-21486-2 (hb). The world of Dickens’s fiction seems an especially welcoming arena for queer theory, given its characteristic
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On Style in Victorian Fiction ed. by Daniel Tyler (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Robert L. Patten
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: On Style in Victorian Fiction ed. by Daniel Tyler Robert L. Patten (bio) Daniel Tyler, editor. On Style in Victorian Fiction. Cambridge UP, 2022. Pp. xi + 315. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-42751-7 (hb). What IS style in fiction? Hard to say. In most Victorian fiction, authors still observe the implicit contract with readers that
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The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online resources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available
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"Becoming Head-gear Is of the Utmost Importance": Gender Performance, Social Differentiation, and the Codes of Hat Etiquette in Dombey and Son Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Chen Houliang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Becoming Head-gear Is of the Utmost Importance”: Gender Performance, Social Differentiation, and the Codes of Hat Etiquette in Dombey and Son Chen Houliang (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution “Profound Cogitation of Captain Cuttle,” by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), frontispiece to Dombey and Son, London, The Caxton Publishing
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Biblical Allusion in the Opening Numbers of Three of Charles Dickens's Serialized Novels Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Zhu Yuanyuan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Biblical Allusion in the Opening Numbers of Three of Charles Dickens’s Serialized Novels Zhu Yuanyuan (bio) Charles Dickens’s allusive and thematic use of the Bible in his novels and other writings has caught critical attention over the past four decades, resulting in studies that either explore his personal belief and his attitude towards
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Developing the "lines": Politically Significant Landscapes in Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Nanako Konoshima
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Developing the “lines”: Politically Significant Landscapes in Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities Nanako Konoshima (bio) Philip Collins once noted that A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, two “remarkably different” novels, are “consecutive” and “close together” (“A Tale” 337). In fact, the consecutiveness of the two works
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These Three, Met Again: The Real Resurrection of Edwin Drood Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Carra Glatt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: These Three, Met Again: The Real Resurrection of Edwin Drood Carra Glatt (bio) Despite a comparatively recent flourishing of postcolonial readings of the novel, criticism of The Mystery of Edwin Drood has been focused predominantly on John Jasper, the respected choir-master and outwardly doting uncle whose opium-fueled fantasies lead,
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The Unknown Adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: Amateur Theatre, Film Avant-garde, and the Magic Lantern Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Anna Kovalova
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Unknown Adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: Amateur Theatre, Film Avant-garde, and the Magic Lantern Anna Kovalova (bio) In December 1932, the Rochester Community Players (RCP), one of the oldest continuously operated amateur theatre organizations in America, premiered A Christmas Carol, an adaptation of the famous
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The Man with Jane: Another Look into Bellamy's Kitchen Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 William F. Long
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Man with Jane: Another Look into Bellamy’s Kitchen William F. Long (bio) “The House” and “Bellamy’s,” two sketches by Boz published in the Evening Chronicle on 7 March and 11 April 1835 respectively, contain short, vivid descriptions of some dozen unnamed parliamentarians.1 Their subjects are likely to have been readily recognized
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Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil: Sesquicentennial Essays ed. by Mitsuharu Matsuoka (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jen Baker
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil: Sesquicentennial Essays ed. by Mitsuharu Matsuoka Jen Baker (bio) Mitsuharu Matsuoka, editor.Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil: Sesquicentennial Essays. Athena Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 366. ¥3,636. ISBN: 9784863403376 (hb). Setting the scene of this project commemorating 150 years since Dickens’s
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Charles Dickens: But for You, Dear Stranger by Annette Federico (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Chelsey Pinney
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Charles Dickens: But for You, Dear Stranger by Annette Federico Chelsey Pinney (bio) Annette Federico. Charles Dickens: But for You, Dear Stranger. Oxford UP, 2022. Pp. vii + 164. £18.99. IBSN: 978-0-1928-4734-8 (hb). Annette Federico’s But for You, Dear Stranger exemplifies how nuanced and analytical personal responses to
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Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Joel J. Brattin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby Joel J. Brattin (bio) Nick Hornby. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius. Riverhead Books, 2022. Pp. 171. $18.00. ISBN 978-0-593-54182-1 (hb). Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby has tried his hand at nonfiction before, writing books, essays, and book
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The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online ressources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available
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Editors and Editorial Board Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors and Editorial Board General Editor: Dominic Rainsford Associate Editor: Trey Philpotts Review Editor: Margaret Flanders Darby Production Editor: Amanda Helm Editorial Board: Murray Baumgarten Ushashi Dasgupta John Drew ;Sean Grass Jennifer Gribble Goldie Morgentaler Leslie Simon Daniel Tyler Nathalie Vanfasse Catherine Waters Claire
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Contributors to this Issue Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors to this Issue Michelle Allen-Emerson is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where she has taught since 2003. Publications include Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London (Ohio UP, 2008) and the multi-volume edited collection of primary source material Sanitary Reform in Victorian
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From the Editor Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editor Dominic Rainsford Whether David Copperfield was the hero of his own life is a matter for inexhaustible debate–for him and the rest of us. He is now, however, the hero of his own issue of Dickens Quarterly. This has happened, like so many things in life, quite by chance. In other words, this is an "unofficial" special issue
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David Copperfield, Émile, and the Legacy of Enlightenment Education Literature Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Benjamin D. O'Dell
Abstract: The Bildungsroman is a genre concerned with the construction of the individual's relationship with society. Critics have often associated Victorian Bildungsromane with the loss of agency as ideological forces funnel literary characters (and, by extension, their readers) through a series of conventional plot points designed to reinforce a fairly conservative set of middle-class values. This
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"In a Dark Wig": Reinventing Byron as Steerforth in David Copperfield Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 James Armstrong
Abstract: Victorians like Charles Dickens both lauded the Romantic poets as heroes and deplored them for their loose morals. No figure caused more consternation for the Victorians than Lord Byron, a figure Dickens reimagined as James Steerforth in his novel David Copperfield. The character's tragedy re-enacts the ambivalent and highly charged relationship Victorians had with Byron, the most notorious
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Dickensian Divisions: David Copperfield's "Hero[ine] of my own life" Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Kathryne Ford
Abstract: This article explores how Charles Dickens's failed romance with Maria Beadnell–which drove him to burn his early autobiographical attempt–haunts his fictional life-writing novel David Copperfield. Maria's rejection intensified Dickens's previous traumas of the blacking warehouse and his father's imprisonment–subsequently producing a type of Freudian split self that I term the Dickensian hero/protagonist
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Charles Dickens, Charles Babbage, Richard Babley: Material Memory in David Copperfield Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Lanya Lamouria
Abstract: This article argues that Dickens's David Copperfield (1850) elaborates a remarkable theory of individual and collective memory. On the one hand, Dickens embraces the idea, conventional in early Victorian psychology and philosophy, of the mind as a palimpsest that contains a permanent record of an individual's experiences. On the other, he extends this belief in the indelibility of memory
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Electrical Undercurrents in David Copperfield Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Jeremy Parrott
Abstract: The evolution in spring 1849 of Dickens's new eponym is traced, showing that the link between "Mag" (as "halfpenny") and "Copperfield" is not merely metallic but electrical. The forename "David" is also interrogated, revealing Humphry Davy as a major inspiration, and Robert Hunt's 1848 work The Poetry of Science as Dickens's immediate source for his knowledge of recent scientific advances
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The Lawyer in Dickens by Franziska Quabeck (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Robert Sirabian
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Lawyer in Dickens by Franziska Quabeck Robert Sirabian (bio) Franziska Quabeck. The Lawyer in Dickens. Walter de Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 145. $107.99. ISBN 978-3-11-075270-0 (hb). Explaining in the Afterword that she is not writing a history of prejudice against lawyers or a cultural history of lawyers and the law, Franziska
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Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform by Terry Scarborough (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Michelle Allen-Emerson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform by Terry Scarborough Michelle Allen-Emerson (bio) Terry Scarborough. Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform. Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2021. Pp. xxvii + 165. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-911454-96-0 (hb). In "The Two Dog-Shows," appearing in
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The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950 by Luke Lewin Davies, and: Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Alistair Robinson (review) Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Tamara S. Wagner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950 by Luke Lewin Davies, and: Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Alistair Robinson Tamara S. Wagner (bio) Luke Lewin Davies. The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xvi + 344
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The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online ressources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available
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The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online ressources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available