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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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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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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 ...
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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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PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS [PDF]
, 2018 An analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens's popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology.
Peter M. Logan
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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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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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«Galeotto fu’l libro e chi lo scrisse»: la literatura como camino al infierno
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información FilosóficaEn 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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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2020 Holiday Romance, written by Dickens and first published in 1868, is a collection of four tales for children in which Dickens indulges his penchant for fairy tales, child-like vision and verbal play. It features four child narrators embarked on a mission:
Isabelle Hervouet
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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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