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Gravothermal Catastrophe in Anisotropic Spherical Systems [PDF]

, 1998
In this paper we investigate the gravothermal instability of spherical stellar systems endowed with a radially anisotropic velocity distribution. We focus our attention on the effects of anisotropy on the conditions for the onset of the instability and ...
Magliocchetti, M., Pucacco, G., Vesperini, E.   +2 more
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‘A veritable Dickens shrine’: Commemorating Charles Dickens at the Dickens House Museum

19, 2011
In 1925, the Dickens Fellowship founded the ‘Dickens House Museum’ at Number 48 Doughty Street, London. The site held a particular significance for Fellowship members as it was the last remaining London home of the author and the location was valued for ...
Catherine Malcolmson
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Just Who Is the Orphan Boy? Or, How Jo Brought Empathy Back into the Middle Class [PDF]

, 2016
This paper won an honorable mention writing flag award in the critical/persuasive category.
Davis, Delia
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Stardust, Modernity, and the Dickensian Brand

19, 2012
This essay considers the ways in which Dickens has been remembered at the bicentenary of his birth. The challenge for the organisers of Dickens 2012 events and exhibitions has been not only to determine the nature of Dickens’s appeal today, but also to ...
Juliet John
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Un romance, dos traducciones: tras la huella de Oliver Twist

Mutatis Mutandis, 2014
En 1870, atendiendo a la invitación de los propietarios del Jornal da Tarde,  Machado de Assis tradujo parte de la novela de Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. Es importante señalar que la traducción de la novela de Dickens en el contexto brasileño del siglo
Franciano Camelo
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“Charles Dickens walked past here”: Dickensian Topography and the Idea of Fellowship

E-REA, 2016
The essay explores the idea of Dickensian topography, in relation both to Dickens’s own preoccupation with topographical specificity in the novels and to the practices of literary tourism in “Dickens Country.” It suggests that there is a kind of synergy ...
Malcolm ANDREWS
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Reading aloud in Dickens' novels [PDF]

, 2008
My argument is that in response to the pervasive family and social activity of reading aloud in the Victorian age, Dickens composed his novels in ways that would further encourage and facilitate such practice.
Lai-ming, Tammy Ho
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Many Kinds of Prison: Charles Dickens on American Incarceration and Slavery

Iperstoria, 2019
When the famous British novelist Charles Dickens arrived in North America in 1842, he came at an ideal time to examine the effects of the first wave of penal reform and prison building.
Diana C. Archibald
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«Galeotto fu’l libro e chi lo scrisse»: la literatura como camino al infierno

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
En el Canto V del Infierno, uno de los pasajes más universalmente conocidos de la Divina Comedia, Dante sugiere la fuerza corruptora de la literatura, desencadenante del adulterio de Paolo y Francesca.
Miguel Ángel Belmonte
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Modern Painters: Dickens and Cézanne

E-REA, 2016
The article compares the ways of looking in Dickens’ novels and in Cézanne’s art, drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty for commentary on Cézanne, and on the commentaries on Merleau-Ponty by Lacan.
Jeremy TAMBLING
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