Category: Research

Frances Laskey writes a feature article on Sharon Aronofsky Weltman’s new book, ‘Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical’. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman is a Dickens Universe faculty member.

Christian Lehmann explains the importance of the Prompt Copy in relation to modern times.

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.

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.

We sat down with one of the creators of the website, Reading Like a Victorian, to hear more about their project, which facilitates the study of Victorian serial novels in their “original serial moments”. Reading Like a Victorian was created by Robyn Warhol, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University,…

Under the sponsorship of the Dickens Society, a round table on “Critical Race Theory and New Directions for Victorian Studies” convened at the annual Modern Language Association conference in Chicago early January, and enjoyed a lively discussion on how to redress methodological and citational exclusions of critical race theory within the field of Victorian studies.

Gerri Kimber reviews Jon Michael Varese’s debut novel, ‘The Spirit Photographer,’ for ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ drawing connections between Wilkie Collins and Joseph Campbell’s ‘Heart of Darkness.’

Call for proposals for a conference on nineteenth-century literature, art, and history to be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Haifa, co-sponsored by the University of California’s Dickens Project.

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the of Robert L. Patten’s revised and enlarged second edition of Charles Dickens and His Publishers.