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Abstract: Katherine J. Kim is an assistant professor at Molloy University. She earned degrees from the University of Chicago (BA and MA) and Boston College (PhD). She conceived of and co-organized the Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial Celebration, which led to a Boston Public Library exhibit and a permanent public statue. Among other projects, Katherine has written book chapters and articles on Poe, Dickens, Catherine Crowe, Charlotte Brontë's Villette, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's "Schalken the Painter," and the fairy-tale "Bluebeard."William F. Long is Emeritus Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen. He has published numerous articles for The Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly and contributed to the Oxford Readers' ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On 15 September 1834, with Parliament in recess, the city of Edinburgh held a Festival to honor Lord Grey, recently resigned Whig Prime Minister and main proponent of the 1832 Electoral Reform Act.1 The political atmosphere was febrile: internal dissension about future directionality was apparent in a Whig government which had by then completed much of the reformist measures on which it had been elected three years earlier. The event in Edinburgh, although ostensibly non-partisan, was regarded by supporters of the administration, now led by Lord Melbourne, as a showcase for its achievements and an opportunity to rally support in the north. For their reactionary Conservative/Tory2 opponents it provided a focus for ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There has been a prevailing opinion among his readers and outspoken critics that Dickens is unable to get into the souls of his characters and depict their inner beings. George Eliot expressed this view writing of Dickens in 1856: "If he could give us their psychological character, their conception of life, and their emotions – with the same truth as their idiom and manner, his books would be the greatest contribution Art has ever made to the awakening of social sympathies" (55). Dissatisfied with Dickens's portrayal of the enmity between Wrayburn and Headstone with respect to their emotions and interiority, Henry James commented on Boz's inability to render the inner lives, passions and desires of his characters: ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Dickens intended his prose to be visualized and meant his illustrations to be read. It should come as no surprise, then, that Dickens's rise to fame during the mid-1830s and early 1840s was accompanied by a burgeoning of the trade in "extra-illustrations," stand-alone plates that depicted characters and scenes in his novels, and which supplemented the engravings by his commissioned illustrators. Though these extra-illustrations were, as Joseph Grego described them in 1899, "unsolicited" and "uninvited" by "either author or publishers," they provided a vital hors-texte enhancement of the scenes within a narrative, appealing to viewers both rich and poor (xii). Unlike the authorized artists who were key participants ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In his editorial address in the first number of Household Words, 1850, Charles Dickens asserts,No mere utilitarian spirit, no iron binding of the mind to grim realities, will give a harsh tone to our Household Words. In the bosoms of the young and old, of the well-to-do and of the poor, we would tenderly cherish that light of Fancy which is inherent in the human breast; which, according to its nurture, burns with an inspiring flame, or sinks into a sullen glare, but which (or woe betide that day!) can never be extinguished.("Preliminary Word" 1)For Dickens, "Fancy," what we call imagination, was not an acquired skill but an inherent characteristic gifted to every human being.1 Dickens aimed to ignite his ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The uses of Shakespeare in Dickens have been much explored, with at least three monographs on the subject (Fleissner, Harbage, and, most thoroughly, Gager), and innumerable articles: surveying nineteenth-century performances and performance-practices; Dickens's relationship to Macready, Samuel Phelps, and the French actor Charles Fechter; speculating on thematic relationships in specific novels, and recording citations, and allusions to Shakespeare in Dickens, which all imply a comprehensive knowledge. To these recognizable influences may be added some not so determinate but more interesting connections. "Influence" is always problematic, for it assumes predictable signs of one writer impacting on another; it is ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: After returning to England from a trip to France, Charles Dickens was travelling by rail from Folkestone to London with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother on 9 June 1865 in the first of seven first-class coaches.1 According to Dickens, his carriage "was caught upon the turn by some of the ruin of the bridge, and hung suspended and balanced in an apparently impossible manner" (Letters 11: 583). After extricating himself and his companions (by using his public recognizability to obtain a guard's key), Dickens aided others. In a letter to Thomas Mitton, Dickens described his actions after removing the Ternans (whom he simply describes as "[two] ladies […]; an old one, and a young one"):I got into the carriage ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: 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 at dickenssociety.org, and is updated once a ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Servant housekeeper": with these two words, Georgina Hogarth – a younger sister of Catherine Dickens and the sister-in-law of Catherine's estranged husband – is identified on the 1861 census returns for 3, Hanover Terrace, Marylebone, presumably by Charles Dickens himself (133). In her engaging book on the relationship between Georgina and her famous brother-in-law, Christine Skelton uses this phrase to underscore the anomalous and evolving position of Miss Hogarth within the novelist's family, its members lodged in temporary quarters at the time. More precisely, the phrase registers Georgina's oddly "reduced" position in the 1861 household (133), nearly three years after Catherine, the original Miss Hogarth, had ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The historical/literary "year book" is something of a twenty-first century publishing phenomenon, ranging from Eric H. Cline's 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed to Christopher Bray's 1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born – and probably beyond. There are at least two books just about 1922 (Jackson and Rabaté). Well-received examples pegged to a single literary author include James Shapiro's Shakespeare books, centered on 1599 and 1606 respectively; and something comparable has been done for Dickens by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, whose Turning Point is about both Dickens and "the World" in 1851. The book on 1845 to be considered here, however, is most clearly comparable with those that have attended to the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Eleven volumes are due to appear of the Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–94), lawyer, colonial administrator in India and historian of criminal law, brother to Leslie Stephen and uncle to Virginia Woolf. He was the son of a British Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Wilberforcian, and instrumental in the ending of slavery in the British colonies. Of those volumes already out, edited overall by Christopher Ricks, Jan-Melissa Schramm, and at first, by Frances Whistler, this one, "On the Novel and Journalism," edited by Ricks, comprises much of his writing for the Saturday Review, which, starting in 1855, coincides with the period of Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities, both of which ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-07T00:00:00-05:00
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