DICKENS QUARTERLY


December 2005

Volume XXII Number 4

ARTICLES

Juliet John: Fagin, The Holocaust and Mass Culture; or Oliver Twist on Screen 204
Gareth Cordery: A Special Relationship: Stiggins in England and America (Part Two) 224
Natalie Cole: Dickens and The Act of Gardening 242


REVIEWS

Gareth Cordery on Valerie Brown Lester: Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens 255
Margaret Flanders Darby on Carolyn W. de la Oulton: Literature and Religion In Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot 259
Leon Litvack: Creating Cultural Memories: Roman Polanski’s “Oliver Twist” 251
David Paroissien on Richard Kelly: Ed. A Christmas Carol 268


THE THIRTY-SIXTH DICKENS SOCIETY
MEETING AND BUSINESS 270

11th ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM 272

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST Elizabeth Bridgham 274


NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 279


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.

Copyright 2005 by the Dickens Society

DICKENS QUARTERLY


September 2005

Volume XXII Number 3

ARTICLES

Gareth Cordery: A Special Relationship: Stiggins in England and
America (Part One) 135
Jamieson Ridenhour: “In that Boney Light”: The Bakhtinian Gothic of
Our Mutual Friend 153
Kit Polga: Dickens and the Morality of Imagination 172

REVIEWS

Lynda Mugglestone on Mashiro Hori: Investigating Dickens’ Style. A Collocational Analyis 179
David Paroissien on Grace Moore: Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class,
Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens 181
Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. on Pam Morris: Imagining Inclusive Society in 19th Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere 186
David Parker on Christopher Booker: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell
Stories 189

ANNOUNCEMENTS 193

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST—Elizabeth Bridgham 196

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 197


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

Copyright 2005 by the Dickens Society

11th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
Queen’s University
Belfast, Northern Ireland
11-13 August 2006

Call for Papers

Charles Dickens visited Belfast in 1858, 1867, and 1869, to deliver those public readings which so captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. He gave renditions of such favourites as The Story of Little Dombey, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, Mrs Gamp, and Sikes and Nancy. He also developed close friendships with the Belfast-born politician and merchant James Emerson Tennent and with Francis Dalziel Finlay, owner and editor of The Northern Whig. He enjoyed his sojourns in Ulster, remarking on his ‘delightful days’ in Belfast, where he was widely recognised and warmly welcomed.

Belfast is the venue for the 11th annual symposium of the Dickens Society of America. This organisation, founded in 1970, aims to conduct, encourage, foster and further support research, publication, instruction and general interest in the life, times and literature of Charles Dickens.

Papers are welcomed on any aspect of Dickens and his works. Final papers must be readable in twenty minutes.

Prospective panellists should send a one-page abstract, by post or email, to

Dr Leon Litvack
School of English
Queen’s University
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

L.Litvack@qub.ac.uk
Tel. +44-28-90973266

Conference participants will have the opportunity to sign up for excursions to local sites of interest including the Giant’s Causeway and the North Antrim coast. The highlight of the conference is the will be the Dickens dinner, where delegates will experience traditional Irish singing and storytelling, provided by the famed local duo Len Graham and John Campbell, who have delighted audiences throughout Ireland, the U.K., Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA.
Accommodation will be offered at the Elms Student Village, 78 Malone Road, Belfast

Conference information and registration forms can be obtained at the conference website.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 31 May 2006

Further information on the Dickens Society, and its journal The Dickens Quarterly may be found at http://www.dickensquarterly.org/