Virtual Issues
In addition to the wealth of conference content, we were delighted to offer our registered delegates an exciting virtual issue on each day of the conference, including relevant articles across from the Wiley-Blackwell literature list.
- Special Issue 1 (Wed 7th March, 4:00pm GMT)
- Special Issue 2 (Thurs 8th March, 3:00pm GMT)
Reference Work Chapters
(Free until June 1st, 2012)
In addition to the virtual issues, we offer selected entries from a number of seminal reference works, including A Companion to Charles Dickens, A Companion to Mark Twain, A History of Victorian Literature, A Companion to the Victorian Novel, Literary Biography: An Introduction, and A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel.
From A Companion to Charles Dickens:
- Postcolonial Dickens (pages 486–500)
John O. Jordan (Chapter 24) - Martin Chuzzlewit (pages 348–357)
Goldie Morgentaler (Chapter 26) - David Copperfield (pages 369–379)
Gareth Cordery (Chapter 17) - Dickens and Christianity (pages 255–276)
Valentine Cunningham (Chapter 14) - Dickens and America (1842) (pages 216–227)
Nancy Aycock Metz (Chapter 9) - The Novels and Popular Culture (pages 142–156)
Juliet John
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From Other Sources:
- The “American Dickens”: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens
A Companion to Mark Twain, Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd, Pages: 141–156, 2007 - “The Times are Unexampled”: Literature in the Age of Machinery, 1830–1850
A History of Victorian Literature, James Eli Adams, Pages: 27–142, 2009 - Empire, Race, and the Victorian Novel
A Companion to the Victorian Novel, Patrick Brantlinger, William B. Thesing, Pages: 84–100, 2007 - Industrial and “Condition of England” Novels
A Companion to the Victorian Novel, Patrick Brantlinger, William B. Thesing, Pages: 336–352, 2007 - Comparative Biography: Dickens’s ‘Lives’
Literary Biography: An Introduction, Michael Benton, Pages: 117–131, 2009 - ‘The Boundaries of Social Intercourse’: Class in the Victorian Novel
A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel, Francis O’Gorman, Pages: 47–70, 2008
#1 by Ricco Sanchez on March 8, 2012 - 5:04 am
In response to “The ‘American Dickens’” I find it particularly interesting to note Gair’s distinct criticism of Dickens’ writings on the United States. Gair alludes to the idea that Dickens was so entirely ethnocentric in his writings that he couldn’t create the slightest adaptations necessary for pinnacle successes in America. This is intriguing on the basis that Gair has proposed America didn’t live up to Dickens’ idealist expectations. A notion of Dickens as an idealist seems anything but logical in light of his literary works. Gair clearly outlines the typical approach Dickens takes toward social critique- vivid reality with a dose of cynicism. To say that his writings weren’t successful because he couldn’t sufficiently adapt them to a new audience may be overlooking the possibility that the new audience, the United States, wasn’t as receptive to criticism and critique as his British audience was.
#2 by Sarah on March 8, 2012 - 7:33 pm
In response to Dickens and Christianity. Having only recently introduced myself to Dickens, I had never looked closely at the christian symboloism sprinkled throughout his novels. After reading Valentine Cunningham’s paper however, I will start paying more attention to his Christ-like characters.