Author: bemarcel
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“This Pagan Festival”
Queen Victoria was not alone in celebrating. The Victorians enjoyed Halloween traditions familiar to us today as well as traditions not at all familiar.
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Goblins, Ghosts, & Martians: History of A Christmas Carol
Join us at 2:00 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, June 16, for a one-hour lecture and Q&A to learn about the history of Charles Dickens’s classic, ‘A Christmas Carol.’
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The Artist at Work
Mike Stern joins us in presenting a passage from ‘Little Dorrit.’ Mrs. Plornish’s Happy Cottage is detailed and the simple joys it brings to the characters in the story. We are also given a look into Mike Stern’s personal connection with this passage and the memories that are attached to it.
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Pilgram’s Progess
Phyllis Orrick discusses Dickens’s response to The Old Curiosity Shop’s 15th number. Dickens’s attitude toward religion is brought up as he begins to make comments on John Bunyan’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress.’
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Quarantine, Bureaucracy, and More: The Relevance of Charles Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit’ Today
If you want a grasp of why and how the nineteenth-century novel matters now, indulge yourself in four brilliant essays on Charles Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit,’ brought to you by ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature.’ The mix of essays reminds us that sometimes we do our best and most ambitious theoretical work by eyeing sharply a novel that can…
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Reading Dickens Today
Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when spirits begin to show up? Is Dickens being guilt-tripped by his estranged wife, Catherine; haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Present; regretting his portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge? And what is Queen Victoria doing there?
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How to Handle an Old Book
Have you ever wanted to learn more about rare and antiquarian books? Tim Clark, Chairman of the Greater Riverside Area Dickens Fellowship and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, provides an introduction to the care required to handle old and rare books. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Coming soon! Tim holds various positions in his community. In…
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When Words Fail: Shakespeare, Dickens, and Lacan
Wayne Batten, Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, points us to a passage from David Copperfield to demonstrate how the Inimitable conveys the inexpressible.
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Even Supposing
Renée Fox, the Dickens Project’s Co-Director at UC Santa Cruz, reflects on what Esther Summerson’s experience during the smallpox epidemic in Bleak House might teach us about social distancing and intimacy in the era of COVID-19. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hi everybody! My name is Renée Fox and I’m the co-director of the Dickens Project here at Santa Cruz.…
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Guitarist, hiker, writer, Dickens fan
Peter Kosenko, who had Dickens Project founder John Jordan as a professor, has included the project in his estate.
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From Dickens to Austen and Beyond
Emma Brodey won the Dickens Project’s national high school essay contest to attend the Dickens Universe in 2013 and now is studying English at Yale University.
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Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
On the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake, discussion about Victorian marriage, and a film screening.