DICKENS QUARTERLY
June 2012
Volume 29
Number 2
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 111
ARTICLES
Rowan Williams: Address at the Wreathlaying Ceremony to Mark the Bicentenary of the Birth of Charles Dickens, Westminster Abby, 7 February 2012 113
Jerome Meckier: Twists in Oliver Twist 116
Nicholas Shrimpton: Great Expectations: Dickens’s Muscular Novel 125
Maria Ioannu: “[S]imply because I found her irresistible”: Female Erotic Power and Feminism in Great Expectations 142
Darren Bevin: Mountain Thoroughfares: Charles Dickens and the Alps 151
REVIEWS
Catherine Peters on Jenny Hartley, ed. The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens 162
David Paroissien on Michael Allen: Charles Dickens and the Blacking Factory 165
Elizabeth Bridgham on Natalie Cole: Dickens and Gender: Recent Studies, 1992-2008 169
Natalie McKnight on Talia Schaffer: Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft & Nineteenth-Century Fiction 171
Robert L. Patten: A Tale of Four Cities Conference 175
NOTICES 178
THE DICKENS CHECKLIST – Elizabeth Bridgham 185
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Dickens Society 17th Annual Symposium
13 to 15 September, 2012
University of Kent, Canterbury
In this bicentennial year, we are particularly fortunate in having the opportunity to welcome delegates to Kent. South-east of London and the Thames, the county maintains distinctive connections with the novelist and his work. Kent was Dickens’s childhood home for a short but intensive period, a retreat and then his home later in life, and the setting for episodes in several of his novels.
Event Package Option
Full Delegate Registration Fee
Cost
£160.00
The registration fee of £160.00 per person covers the banquet on Friday, lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and tea, coffee, and snacks on those days.
last booking date 31 August, 2012
Postgraduate and Dickens Fellowship Member Concessionary Rate
This category is only applicable to post-graduates and Dickens Fellowship Members who will have the opportunity to register for individual days at the concessionary rate of £15.00 per day to include tea/coffee refreshment breaks. Please note that lunch is not included
Venue
The symposium will be held at the main campus of the University of Kent in Canterbury. All panels are to take place in the Grimond Lecture Theatre 1.
Accommodation
Single En Suite, Single Standard, and Double En Suite rooms are available at the University of Kent for the nights of Wednesday 12th September, Thursday, 13th September, and Friday 14th September.
You will have the opportunity to book accommodation during the registration process at £45 per night for a single en-suite room, £30 per night for a standard room or £70 per night for a double en-suite room.
Social Events
The principal social event will be the Gala Dinner, to be held in Darwin College, Suite 3, starting at 19:30. A three-course meal and ½ bottle of wine will be provided, followed by a cash bar.
On Saturday afternoon there will be an optional coach trip to Rochester and Chatham, and an opportunity to explore the location described by Dicken both as “the birthplace of his fancy” and also as “Dullborough”. Among the sites are Restoration House, the supposed original of “Satis House”, and the Bull Hotel, where the Pickwickians began their Perambulations, Perils etc.
Delegates wishing to proceed to London after the trip will be taken to the railway station, before the return to Canterbury.
Travel
Delegates arriving from North America will (most likely) fly into either London Heathrow or Gatwick. Neither is particularly handy for Canterbury and both require further travel by tube or train to London. From Gatwick, the Gatwick Express runs every 15 mins to London Victoria from which there is a direct National Rail Service to Canterbury East. Alternatively, a fast train service leaves regularly from London St. Pancras for Canterbury West. From either Canterbury East or West stations, a taxi tot he campus is the obvious option except for the hardy. For the return journey, the reverse.
Contact
For further information about the content of the conference, please contact:
Professor Malcolm Andrews
M.Y.Andrews@kent.ac.uk
or
Dr Catherine Waters
C.Waters@kent.ac.uk
or
David Paroissien
paroissien@english.umass.edu
PAYMENT:
by credit or debit card and the completion of all the details — name, electronic and postal address, credit/debit card information — requested at the conference website:
Any questions about payment should be referred to: Louisa Grillo: l.grillo@kent.ac.uk
Louisa Grillo
Events Coordinator
University of Kent
Phone: +44 (0) 1227 828000
SYMPOSIUM SEMINAR PROGRAMME
THURSDAY
14.00 -15.40: Dickens and Place:
Daniel Tyler (U Oxford, UK), ‘Enchanting London: Dickens and the Written City’
Tinashe Mushakavanhu (U Kent, UK) , ‘Living in Dickens Country’
Gillian Piggott (Manchester Metropolitan U, UK), ‘Dickens in the Middle East?: Going astray in Tripoli’s streets’
Michael Taylor (Canterbury Christ Church U, UK), ‘Time and Place in Nicholas Nickleby and The Old Curiosity Shop’
– TEA –
16.10 – 17.50: Knowledge, Memory, Technology:
Bert Hornbach (U Saarland, Germany), ‘Different Kinds of Knowledge in Edwin Drood’
Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary College, U London, UK), ‘Dickens on Tinfoil’
Sarah Malton (St Mary’s U, Halifax, Canada), ‘An Ungodly Press: Dickens, Impressment, and Cultural Memory’
Trey Philpotts (U Arkansas Little Rock, US), ‘Dickens and the Railway’
FRIDAY
9.00 – 13.30: Theatricality and Costume:
Louis James (U Kent, UK), ‘ “Real Pump! – Splendid tubs! – Great Attraction!”: the “Realism” of Vincent Crummles’
Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, U London, UK), ‘Hat’s Entertainment! Comedy, Performance and Headwear in Early Dickens’
Jonathan Buckmaster (Royal Holloway College, U London, UK), ‘ “Patch” Re-patched: The Clown as a Humoristico-sartorial Figure in Dickens’
– COFFEE–
10.45 – 12.30: Aesthetics
Leslie Simon (Utah Valley U, US), ‘Fuzzy Logic: Modern Mathematics and Myopic: Aesthetics in Martin Chuzzlewit
Masahiro Hori (Kumamoto Gakuen U, Japan), ‘Collocational and Idiomatic Creativity in Pickwick Papers’
Brian Sabey (Brigham Young U, Utah, US), ‘The Christmas Extras: Rich but Untapped Texts’
Mary Powell (Claremont Grad U, California, US), ‘Sick of Writing: The Erasure of Esther’s Face and Narrative in Bleak House’
–LUNCH–
14.00 – 15.30: Dickens & the Visual:
Nanako Konoshima (Kyoto U, Japan), ‘ “Inclination being strongly towards the illustration of modern life”: Dickens and W.P.Frith’
Gareth Cordery (U Canterbury, New Zealand), ‘Charles Dickens is Called Up for National Service’
Peter Ponzio (Harrison Middleton U, US), ‘Dickens and the Visual: Isolation and Alienation Amid the Bustle of London as depicted in Sketches by Boz’
– TEA –
15.45 – 17.30: Debts and Disagreements:
Joel Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Inst, US), ‘Dickens’s Debt to Thomas Holcroft: Borrowings in Barnaby Rudge’
Jerome Meckier (U Kentucky, US), ‘Dickens and Tocqueville: Chapter Seven of American Notes’
Sara Pearson (Trinity Western U, BC, Canada), ‘Re-Writing Jane Eyre: Literary Transformations in David Copperfield’
Mark Cronin (St. Anselm College, US), ‘The “Week-day Preacher”: Thackeray, Dickens Charitable Aesthetic’
SATURDAY
9.00 – 10.40: Women, Sex, Marriage:
Joanne Parsons (U West of England, UK), ‘Angels and Slatterns: The Power of the Domestic in David Copperfield’
Natalie McKnight (Boston U, US), ‘ “A little humouring of Pussy’s points!”; or, Sex – the Real Unsolved Mystery of Edwin Drood’
Lauren Byler (California State U, US), ‘Dickens’s Little Women; or, Cute as the Dickens’
Brenda Welch (Waco, Texas, US), ‘Bleak House: The “Nature of the Circumstances” in Victorian Marital Contracts’
– COFFEE –
11.00 – 12.40: Medical/Psychological:
Kris Siefken (U Leicester, UK), ‘ “Character made plastic by the discipline”: How Solitary Confinement presents Psychologically Construct(ive) Possibilities in Oliver
Twist and A Tale of Two Cities’
Jessica Groper (Glendale Community College, California, US), ‘Villainous Epilepsy in Charles Dickens’
Madeline Wood (U Warwick, UK), ‘Dying and Getting High: Lyrical Deaths in Dombey and Son and The Mystery of Edwin Drood’
Theresa Kenney & Cheryl Kinney (U Dallas, US)( ‘The Heroic Cicatrix and Bleak House’