-
Mudfog: Crabbe and Dickens, and the View from the Marshes Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Jeremy Tambling
Abstract: This paper asks about the relationship of Crabbe's poetry (and his life) to Dickens, and pursues an interest in the marshy and muddy landscapes of David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Great Expectations, with attention also to Little Dorrit. I am interested in Dickens's neologism "mudfog," and how this extends through his fiction; in this specific case looking at Orlick in Great Expectations
-
The Deviant Body: Object and Spectacle in The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Todd Spooner
Abstract: The Old Curiosity Shop, by title and by content, sublimely exhibits the Victorian period's enchantment with the curious. At first blush, the items of allure are the inanimate objects on display in Nell's grandfather's shop. With more measured inspection the question of animacy blurs, as both living and nonliving curiosities are subjected to the glare of fixation and fetishization. The Old
-
Ovid Novelized: Metamorphoses Rewritten as a Cautionary Plea for Change in Our Mutual Friend Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Saber Hamdi
Abstract: Dickens's Our Mutual Friend is a rewriting of Ovid's Metamorphoses that sets off a dimension of cultural critique that is inherent to the poem. It does so by updating the scope of the source text's representational energies. In this respect, the novel explores a series of Ovidian mutations that partake of a criticism of signs of degeneration within the social landscape. For this, it mobilizes
-
Past as Prologue: "Dickens v. Dickens" in Chancery Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Gail David-Tellis
Abstract: In 1934, the widow of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens filed a complaint with the Court of Chancery to defend her right to keep some 40,000 pounds (roughly 2,400.000 today) from the sale of The Life of Our Lord, an unpublished Dickens manuscript inherited by her late husband. Her niece, Ethel Dickens, disputed Lady Dickens's claim. Ethel contended that because Dickens's Will consigned copyright
-
An Opera and Dickens's "Lost" Sketch Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 William F. Long
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Opera and Dickens's "Lost" Sketch William F. Long (bio) This note records a possible allusion to the opera Gustavus the Third, or The Masked Ball in the early Dickens sketch "Sentiment" and considers its relevance in determining when the sketch was written. "Sentiment": Date of Publication The first series of Sketches by Boz, published
-
Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby: An Annotated Bibliography by Robert C. Hanna (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby: An Annotated Bibliography by Robert C. Hanna Dominic Rainsford (bio) Robert C. Hanna. Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby: An Annotated Bibliography. Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2024. 2 vols. xxi + 749 pp. and v + 626 pp. £145.00 and £125.00. ISBN 978-1-915115-28-7 and 9781915115324
-
The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens by Pete Orford (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Catherine Quirk
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens by Pete Orford Catherine Quirk (bio) Pete Orford. The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens. Wiley–Blackwell, 2023. Pp. vii + 269. $23.95. ISBN 978-1-119-69745-9 (pb). Pete Orford opens his new biography of The Inimitable by stating, quite simply, that "Charles Dickens is a contradiction"
-
The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law by Jeremy Tambling (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Carolyn Vellenga Berman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law by Jeremy Tambling Carolyn Vellenga Berman (bio) Jeremy Tambling. The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. xv + 203. $115.00; £85.00. ISBN 978-1-350-35455-5 (hb). Jeremy Tambling's suggestive
-
Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Lauren Gillingham (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Clayton Carlyle Tarr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Lauren Gillingham Clayton Carlyle Tarr (bio) Lauren Gillingham. Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Cambridge UP, 2023. Pp. vii + 310. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-009-29655-7 (hb). Lauren Gillingham's Fashionable
-
Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience by Timothy Gao (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Valerie Purton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience by Timothy Gao Valerie Purton (bio) Timothy Gao. Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience. Cambridge UP, 2021. Pp. vi + 222. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-108-83716-3 (hb). No sooner had the warm liquid
-
The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Jennifer MacLure (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Rebecca Easler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Jennifer MacLure Rebecca Easler (bio) Jennifer MacLure. The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction. Ohio State UP, 2023. Pp. vii + 177. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1485-5 (hb). What is the difference between "letting die" and active killing
-
The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 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 and cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is
-
The Gentleman from the Gem of the Sea: The 1834 Edinburgh Dinner Revisited Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 William F. Long
Abstract: Most modern biographies of Dickens refer to his first major assignment for the Morning Chronicle: a trip to Edinburgh to report on a Festival in honor of Lord Grey. The visit has become celebrated by the inclusion, in the resulting newspaper copy, of a 238-word passage which, it has been remarked, "would not have been out of place in one of Boz's Monthly tales" (Slater 43). The present paper
-
The Power of the Eye and Point of View in Oliver Twist Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Magdalena Pypeć
Abstract: This article seeks to revise the orthodox opinćions about Dickens as a "superficial" novelist who is unable to delve into the souls of his characters and depict their interiority. Since the introspective elements in Dickens are worthy of more attention than they have received, I critically dissect two passages in which Dickens dramatizes the mental operations of two criminals (Sikes and Fagin)
-
Picturing Barnaby Rudge: The Authorized and the Extra Illustrations Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Kathy Rees
Abstract: This article explores the function and significance of "extra-illustrations" by discussing the steel-engraved plates of two episodes in Barnaby Rudge by Thomas Sibson (1817–44) in relation to Hablot Knight Browne's (1815–82) wood-engravings of the same scenes. While Browne's designs are carefully integrated into the text by meticulous placement, Sibson's plates were intended to stand alone
-
"What Does it Matter?": Reading Within Architectural Spaces in Dickens's Hard Times Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Meaghan Scott
Abstract: In this article, I analyze the progression of Louisa Gradgrind's imaginative and emotional interior life in Charles Dickens's Hard Times. I integrate Gaston Bachelard's theory of the intrinsic relationship between imagination and architectural spaces in The Poetics of Space (1958) with Cassandra Falke's theoretical approach to learning empathy through reading literature in The Phenomenology
-
Dickens's Mudfog Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Jeremy Tambling
Abstract: This article has three intentions. It starts with the name "Mudfog" as this appears in Dickens, and as the combination of mud and fog – why these? – runs throughout Dickens's prose and his settings, and his interests. It gives particular attention here to Bleak House and Little Dorrit and Great Expectations. Second, it is interested in thinking of mud and fog not as "symbols," but as modes
-
Writing to Control the Narrative: Charles Dickens, PTSD, and the Staplehurst Rail Crash Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Katherine J. Kim
Abstract: Charles Dickens's involvement in the 9 June 1865 Staplehurst Rail Crash was a traumatic event that resonated with the author for the remainder of his life (which ended five years to the day of the accident). This article merges examinations of Dickens's symptoms of what is now termed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the Staplehurst Rail Crash, auxiliary personal events that may have
-
Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship by Christine Skelton (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Lillian Nayder
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship by Christine Skelton Lillian Nayder (bio) Christine Skelton. Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship. Manchester UP, 2023. Pp. xiv + 298. £20.00. ISBN: 978-1-5261-6608-1 (hb). "Servant housekeeper": with these two words
-
The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 by Michael Wheeler (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Dominic Rainsford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 by Michael Wheeler Dominic Rainsford (bio) Michael Wheeler. The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845. Cambridge UP, 2023. Pp. xviii + 466. £29.99. ISBN 978-1-009-26885-1 (hb). The historical/literary "year book" is something
-
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism ed. by Christopher Ricks (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Jeremy Tambling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism ed. by Christopher Ricks Jeremy Tambling (bio) Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism. Edited by Christopher Ricks, Oxford UP, 2023. Pp. xxxvi + 258. £160. ISBN 978-0-19-288283-7 (hb). Eleven volumes are due to appear
-
The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 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
-
Contributors to this Issue Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Dickens and His Publics Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Dickensian Dimensions: A Transatlantic Dialogue Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Big Novels for Little Folks: Dickens Adapted, Abridged, and Excerpted for Young Readers Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Done with Dickens Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Full Havisham Effect Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Bent and Broken Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Teaching and Reading Dickens in Brazil: A Tale of Two Cities as a Case Study Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
"Cancelled" by the Revolution?: The Limits of Celebrity in A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Hair Apparent; or, Dickens's Public Hair Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing by Lucinda Hawksley (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Lawrence Goldman (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Contributors to this Issue Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Pickwick and Scrooge: Two Excellent Men of Business Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
"It was a strange figure": The Fairies of A Christmas Carol Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Jaggers the Plotter and the Pretty Child: Masculine Vulnerability to Beauty in Great Expectations Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
"The wife who has plagued him … & … is rather lunatical": A Contemporary Private Reference to the Dickens Scandal Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Dickens, Death, and Christmas by Robert L. Patten (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention by Garrett Stewart (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority by Peter J. Katz (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880 by Anna A. Berman (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Screening Charles Dickens: A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations by William Farina (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Dickens Society Prizes Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
"Accidents will happen": Dickens's Comical Mishaps Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
"Fact" versus "Fancy" among Victorian Professionals in Hard Times Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Charles Dickens & Sir Philip Sidney: Hard Times, An Equine Defence for the Novel Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Juvenalian Satire of Our Mutual Friend Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Boz, New York and a Temperance Aphorism Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First Person Narrative and the Mind by Tyson Stolte (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Goethe und Dickens als christliche Dichter by Vittorio Hösle (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
Queer Economic Dissidence and Victorian Literature by Meg Dobbins (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
On Style in Victorian Fiction ed. by Daniel Tyler (review) Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
The Dickens Checklist Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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
-
"Becoming Head-gear Is of the Utmost Importance": Gender Performance, Social Differentiation, and the Codes of Hat Etiquette in Dombey and Son Dickens Quarterly (IF 0.7) 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