The Dickens Society

DICKENS QUARTERLY

 March 2013

 Volume 30 Number 1

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE          3

ARTICLES

David R. Sorensen: “The Unseen Heart of the Whole”: Carlyle, Dickens and the Sources of The French Revolution     5

Catherine Waters: Sketches of the Metropolis: Pub-Crawling with George Augustus Sala in Household Words     26

William F. Long: Inspector Field and the Improbable Gift     43

Natalie McKnight: “‘A little humoring of Pussy’s points!’”; or, Sex – the Real Unsolved Mystery of Edwin Drood     55

NOTES

Ruth Richardson: “Boz”: Another Explanation     64

REVIEWS

Roberts Garnett on Michael Slater: The Great Charles Dickens Scandal     66

Michael Allen on Robert Gottlieb:  Great Expectations: the Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens     69

Bert Hornback on Peter Clark: Dickens’s London; on Daniel Tyler: A Guide to Dickens’ London     71

Monika Fludernik on Garrett Stewart: Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction     75

John Drew on Tanya Agathocleous: Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century     78  

NOTICES      82

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST -  Elizabeth Bridgham     86

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University. Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

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DICKENS SOCIETY

18TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

4-8 JULY 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

In late April 1842 Charles Dickens made what he called a ‘run into Canada’.  He considered it a country where ‘public feeling and private enterprise’ were ‘in a sound and wholesome state’, and he found ‘health and vigor throbbing in its steady pulse’. Of Toronto he said, ‘the town itself is full of life and motion, bustle, business, and improvement.  The streets are well paved and lighted with gas . . . the shops excellent’.  It is here that we will gather from 4-8 July 2013, to reunite with old friends, and make many new ones.

As well as a fine run of academic presentations and Dickensian discussion, delegates will be treated to several special events: a gala Dickens concert, with music provided by the Toronto Chamber Choir; a visit to historic Fort York (a strategic location in the War of 1812); and an excursion to Niagara Falls (which Dickens visited) and Ontario’s wine country.

Papers (deliverable in twenty minutes) may be proposed on any aspect of Dickens and his works.  One-page proposals should be send by 30 April, 2013, to Dr Leon Litvack, School of English, Queen’s University, Belfast BT71NN Northern Ireland, UK.  Email L.Litvack@qub.ac.uk

Further information on the Symposium may also be accessed through:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DickensToronto

Twitter:     DickensToronto2013

Reservations for accommodation are now open.  Please apply before 15 April 2013 to

http://www.vicu.utoronto.ca/hospitality/resaccommodations/SummerAccommodations/ReservationInformation/MakeAReservation.htm

Academic sessions will take place at Victoria College, on the University of Toronto’s St George campus, in the downtown area.  All Symposium venues are air conditioned, as are the residence rooms which have been reserved for delegates.  Toronto is one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities, with over one hundred languages spoken.  It is Canada’s commercial and cultural capital, with excellent transportation links to major centres in North America and the rest of the world.  The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading teaching and research institution, and counts among its notable intellectual figures Northrop Frye, Marshall McLuhan, and Robertson Davies.  Many creative writers are among its famous alumni, including Stephen Leacock, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje.

The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize will be awarded to one or two outstanding graduate student submissions.  Please see the Partlow Prize section of  this website for more information.