Keynote Lecture: ‘Looking Back and Looking Forward: Shifting Perspectives in Dickens’s Fiction’ – Prof David Paroissien

In this illuminating 30 minute video, world-renowned Dickens scholar, Prof. David Paroissien shares his insights on Dickens’s unique writing style and the historical, social and geographical milieu in which he wrote.

Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Dickens as Janus: Hanoverian England and Victorian England
3. David Copperfield
4. The 1834 Poor Law and the Fledgling USA
5. Dickens’s Relationship with Christianity
6. Concluding Thoughts