"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together..."Great Expectations, ch.27
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