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Abstract: 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 at dickenssociety.org, and is updated once a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In his lengthy speech condemning the Absolutist regime of Miguel I of Portugal on 1 June 1829, Viscount Palmerston gave a memorable account (inserted into Hansard by special permission) of the operation of power in human society: “There is in nature no moving power but mind, all else is passive and inert; in human affairs this power is opinion; in political affairs it is public opinion; and he who can grasp this power, with it will subdue the fleshly arm of physical strength and compel it to work out his purpose.” Indeed, those who “know how to avail themselves of the passions, and the interests, and the opinions of mankind, are able to gain an ascendancy, and to exercise a sway over human affairs, far out of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Annette Federico’s But for You, Dear Stranger exemplifies how nuanced and analytical personal responses to literature can be. Rather than solely thinking our way through Dickens’s corpus, Federico demonstrates the rewards to be reaped from feeling our way through as well. She achieves this quietly, but unashamedly, unapologetically, and with admirable honesty. Federico has previous form with such an approach, as evidenced in her 2020 project, My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice, and it shows. The narrative that unfolds is highly creative, at times poetic and even therapeutic through its combined personal and critical engagement with Dickens’s novels. Despite the modest admission from the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby has tried his hand at nonfiction before, writing books, essays, and book reviews on pop music and football. Here, he proposes links between Charles Dickens and the Minneapolis performer and recording artist Prince Rogers Nelson, more commonly known as Prince (1958–2016).This short book is written in an engaging style, offering information about both title figures in an accessible and often colorful manner. The two men have quite a lot in common, according to Hornby: among other things, both died at age 58 (except for Prince, who was only 57), overcame childhood poverty and deprivation, met with extraordinary success in their twenties, worked on multiple projects at once ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Setting the scene of this project commemorating 150 years since Dickens’s death, the editor notes that, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, it almost did not make its deadline. Yet, in true tribute to Dickens’s own strict adherence to deadlines, the collection was successfully published (in even greater tribute) on Christmas day of 2020. The influence for the work, as Paul Schlicke identifies in his Introduction to this edited collection, is that “[a]mong Dickens’s firmly held beliefs is the conviction of the existence of evil” (2), and each of the twenty essays anatomizes the “various kinds of evil” (ix) at play, focusing on one of Dickens’s major works, roughly in chronological order of publication.Schlicke frames ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Jen Baker teaches courses on nineteenth-century Anglophone writings at the University of Warwick, and is an Associate Editor of Gothic Studies journal. Her publications include “Traditions and Anxieties of (un) timely Child Death in Jude the Obscure” (Thomas Hardy Journal, 2017), “IMPRINTS: Forming and Tracing the Malevolent Ghost-Child” (The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children, ed. Simon Bacon & Leo Ruickbie, 2020) and “Guardian Hosts and Custodial Witnesses: In loco parentis in Women’s Ghost Stories, 1852–1920” (Women’s Writing, 2021).Joel J. Brattin, Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has published extensively on Dickens. He is editing A Tale of Two Cities for Oxford University ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This is a particularly international issue of Dickens Quarterly, with contributors based in China, Denmark, Japan, Israel, Latvia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This raises a dilemma when it comes to name-order. Chinese and Japanese names (as well as various others not represented in the current issue) are normally presented with the family name first, in the languages in question. Western publishers, and Western society more broadly, have largely adopted the Chinese convention, referring to “Xi Jinping” and “Ai Weiwei,” for example, rather than “Jinping Xi” and “Weiwei Ai.” On the other hand, despite some official encouragement from the Japanese government, Western sources continue to Westernize the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “Profound Cogitation of Captain Cuttle,” by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), frontispiece to Dombey and Son, London, The Caxton Publishing Co., 1910.In Everyday Etiquette: A Practical Manual of Social Usages (1905), Marion Harland and Virginia Van De Water spill much ink on hat etiquette. Although the heyday of hat wearing was waning to a close when the book was published, the authors still admonish their readers: “Becoming head-gear is of the utmost importance” (168). Indeed, hat wearing is so central to the nineteenth-century British schemas of identity performance and social differentiation that, as Michael Paterson notices, “[n]o man or woman during the whole of the nineteenth century would have dreamed of going out ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: 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 religious and theological issues,1 or interpret his texts’ themes, characters, or narratives by examining their connections with biblical counterparts.2 Most recently, Jennifer Gribble’s Dickens and the Bible: “What Providence Meant” (2021) has explored how Dickens engages the Judeo-Christian grand narrative in his novels in dialogue with other contemporary narratives. However, critical examination of biblical allusion in Dickens’s novels has overlooked the aspect of serial publication ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: 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 deserves closer and fuller examination than Collins suggests, and the present essay teases out thematic and textual links between them, related to the overall idea of the two novels, that have gone unexplored. These links revolve around Dickens’s creation of politically significant landscape motifs, and I argue that the description of the marshes in Great Expectations is a successful development of the earlier novel’s revolutionary landscapes, both in aesthetic and emblematic terms. The marked linearity of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: 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, to all appearances, to an earnest, seemingly successful attempt on his nephew’s life. Seething with resentment and frustrated passion, Jasper is a figure of doubleness and repression whose depiction reflects an emerging Victorian interest in the unconscious mind; several biographers and critics have read him as a refracted mirror into Dickens’s own troubled psyche.1 Far less attention has been paid to the eponymous Edwin himself. A self-confessed “shallow ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: 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 story by Charles Dickens. This innovative production included scenes “on screen”: Scrooge’s visions of the past were presented as films projected during the performance. These films were made with the involvement of Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber, key figures in the history of American avant-garde cinema.Adaptations of Charles Dickens’s works have become a wide field of study; there are many excellent books and articles on how Dickens has been adapted in theatre and in cinema.1 Some of these works are ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “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 by many contemporary readers.2 Seven “originals” were named in 1954 (Carlton) and the identity of a further three suggested more recently (Long). In the present paper, another of the subjects and the circumstances in 1835 which made him noteworthy are considered.The subjects of Boz’s descriptions, in addition to members of parliament, included the staff of Bellamy’s kitchen, the refreshment-room which served both Houses of Parliament.3 Here, in the second of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-26T00:00:00-05:00
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