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Dickens Universe celebrates 40th anniversary with ‘A Christmas Carol’
This summer, the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz—the largest multi-campus consortium on Victorian studies in the world—will present the 40th year of the Dickens Universe, a week of intense study and festivities.
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‘Partial Answers’: Review of ‘The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens’
Iain Crawford, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, reviews ‘The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens’ edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters.
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Deciphering Dickens with the V&A and the Morgan Library & Museum
Universe participants are invited to help decipher much of Dickens’s deleted and revised manuscript material as possible to produce a powerful and lasting resource for readers, scholars, and editors of his work.
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Luckie MacLeary
Tyger Wright describes her fascination with Luckie MacLeary in a passage from Waverley by Walter Scott. The scene takes place with Edward Waverley having a drink with the Laird of Killancureit when he runs into Luckie MacLeary.
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New Beginnings for the Friends of the Dickens Project Board
The Friends of the Dickens Project Board has recently elected a new President, who will begin his term at this year’s Dickens Universe in July. Meet both the current President, JoAnna Rottke, as well as the incoming President, Mike Stern, in this article.
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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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Decoding Dickens: Context, Approaches, Inspirations
An online networking symposium introduces the ‘savage stenographic mystery of Dickens’s shorthand and the challenges of deciphering unusual scripts. July 23, 2021, 2:00-6:40 PM (BST)
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Mr. Tulkinghorn at Leisure
Dickens Project Director John Jordan is back again with a passage from ‘Bleak House’ regarding Mr. Tulkinghorn and his secretive demeanor. The main focus is on Mr. Tulkinghorn’s indulgence in wine and the mythic allusions that are made in regards to him and Lady Dedlock.
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Review of ‘The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens’
Joseph McLaughlin, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University and coeditor of the ‘Ohio Series in Victorian Studies’ at Ohio’s university press, reviews ‘The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens’ edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters.
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The Dombey House
Dickens Project Director John Jordan returns with a passage about the slow and incremental changes tracked within the Dombey household while Mr. Dombey is away. It centers on how the Dombey mansion “becomes almost another character in this wonderful novel.”