Founded in 1970 as an organization to encourage and support research and writing on Charles Dickens. Dickens Quarterly, a scholarly journal and organ of the Society, is published in March, June, September and December.
ARTICLES
Wendy Parkins: Emotions, Ethics and Sociality in Dickens’s Sketches of Young Couples
John O. Jordan: The Ghost in Bleak House
Stewart Justman: “Oriental Tales and Great Expectations”
Ewa Kujawska-Lis: Dickens and Ellen Ternan in Polish Criticism Read more »
“Adapting Dickens” The Dickens Society invites papers on adaptations of
Dickens’s novels across time and media, from stage and film to Neo-Victorian fiction and contemporary-even commercial-incarnations. 250-word abstracts by 8 March 2010 to Marty Gould (mgould@cas.usf.edu).
The Dickens Society in collaboration with the American Psychoanalytic
Association is pleased to invite submissions for “Dickens and
Psychoanalysis,” a panel on new psychoanalytic approaches to Dickens.
Possible topics include trauma, dissociation, dreams, hallucinatory states,
unconscious memory; on Victorian theories of mind: double consciousness, mesmerism, physiognomy; and on novels as case studies. 250-word abstracts to John Jordan (picasso@ucsc.edu) by 15 March 2010.
“Dickens, History, and Historiography”
Papers on relations among histories and fictions in Dickens’s works; on
Dickens’s uses of history; on Dickens-as-historian or historiographer; on
Dickens as history. 250-word abstracts to Rebecca Stern(stern2@mailbox.sc.edu) by 8 March 2010.
Seminar, 10–12 June 2010, Universität des Saarlandes
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