Keynote Lecture: Psychology, Gender, and the Brain in Dickens Scholarship – Prof. Anne Stiles

Literature Compass editor and author, Anne Stiles (St. Louis University) shares her thoughts on scholarship regarding Dickens, psychology, gender and the brain.

Papers discussed are:

The Manly Mind? Revisiting the Victorian ‘Sex in Brain’ Debate by Rob Boddice
Victorian Sexualities by Holly Furneaux
Unsettling the Normative: Articulations of Masculinity in Victorian Literature and Culture by Dustin Friedman
Dickens and Women by Kathryn Sutherland
In Such a State of Ink: Adolescents in the Novels of Charles Dickens by Elizabeth Welburn
Victorian Psychology and the Novel by Anne Stiles
David Copperfield as Psychological Fiction by Mark Spilka