Category: Dickens-to-Go
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The Dickensian Reader as Detective
Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member and filmmaker, Michael Stern, discusses how the uncovering of connections between seemingly unconnected places and people in Bleak House can help us to understand societal epidemics. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTHi, I’m Mike Stern with a favorite passage from Dickens that we’re sharing as part of the Dickens Project’s Dickens-to-Go series. The passage is…
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Friends of the Dickens Project President and former Dickens Project Assistant Director, JoAnna Rottke, discusses how the opening paragraph in the first novel she read after joining the Dickens Project remains relevant today. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Hi, my name is JoAnna Rottke. I’m the former Assistant Director of the Dickens Project and currently President of the Friends…
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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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Partings Welded Together
Dickens Project Director, John O. Jordan, reflects on partings welded together in the first installment of Dickens-to-Go. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Hi, I’m John Jordan from the Dickens Project and I’m speaking between you from home during the coronavirus pandemic. This year, because of the pandemic, we’ve been forced to cancel our annual summer conference, which means that…