The History of the Universe
Dickens Universe novels by year with conference programs, and accompanying pre-conference programs, and graduate winter conference programs
| Year |
Novel(s) |
Weekend Conference |
Winter Graduate Conference |
| 1981 |
Great Expectations |
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| 1982 |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens and Carlyle |
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| 1983 |
David Copperfield |
Victorian Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction |
Dickens and the Fantastic |
| 1984 |
Martin Chuzzlewit |
Dickens and Twain |
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| 1985 |
Oliver Twist |
Cinematic Affinities: Dickens, Fiction, and Film |
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| 1986 |
Our Mutual Friend |
Dickens, Shakespeare, and the Theatre |
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| 1987 |
Dombey and Son |
Dickens, Women, and Victorian Culture |
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| 1988 |
Bleak House |
Legal Fictions: Dickens, Victorian Society, and the Law |
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| 1989 |
Old Curiosity Shop |
Dickens, Sentimentality, and Victorian Culture |
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| 1990 |
Little Dorrit |
Debt and Victorian Culture |
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| 1991 |
Pickwick Papers |
Masterpieces in the Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and the Circulation of Books |
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| 1992 |
Nicholas Nickleby |
Victorian Literature and the Visual Imagination |
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| 1993 |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
Victorian Mystery |
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| 1994 |
Hard Times |
Victorian Work |
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| 1995 |
Great Expectations and Jane Eyre |
Victorian Mind |
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| 1996 |
The Christmas Books |
Victorian Spectacle |
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| 1997 |
David Copperfield and Pride and Prejudice |
Reversions: 20th-Century Appropriations of 19th-Century Culture |
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| 1998 |
Oliver Twist and the Alice Books |
Forms of Victorian Violence |
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| 1999 |
Barnaby Rudge |
Victoria Redressed: Feminism and 19th-Century Studies |
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| 2000 |
Our Mutual Friend |
Victorian Waste |
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| 2001 |
Bleak House |
Victorian Exhibitions |
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| 2002 |
Dombey and Son |
Victorian Business |
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| 2003 |
Old Curiosity Shop |
Victorian Soundings |
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| 2004 |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Victorian Terrors |
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| 2005 |
Little Dorrit |
Dickens: Life and Afterlife |
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| 2006 |
Nicholas Nickleby |
Urbanism, Urbanity, and the 19th-Century Novel |
UC Los Angeles |
| 2007 |
Pickwick Papers |
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Rutgers University |
| 2008 |
Hard Times and Mary Barton |
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UC Davis |
| 2009 |
David Copperfield |
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Vanderbilt University |
| 2010 |
Oliver Twist and Sketches by Boz |
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UC Los Angeles |
| 2011 |
Great Expectations |
Victorian Futures |
Rice University |
| 2012 |
Bleak House |
Dickens! Author and Authorship |
UC Santa Cruz |
| 2013 |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Moonstone |
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Louisiana State University |
| 2014 |
Our Mutual Friend |
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UC Los Angeles |
| 2015 |
Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes |
The Long, Wide Nineteenth Century |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| 2016 |
Dombey and Son |
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UC Davis |
| 2017 |
Middlemarch |
Form and Reform |
University of Kentucky |
| 2018 |
Little Dorrit |
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UC Riverside |
| 2019 |
Barnaby Rudge |
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UC Los Angeles |
| 2020 |
Virtual Dickens Universe, an introduction to Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted |
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Vanderbilt University |
| 2021 |
A Christmas Carol |
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Virtual |
| 2022 |
David Copperfield and Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted |
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Virtual |
| 2023 |
A Tale of Two Cities |
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UC Santa Cruz |
| 2024 |
Great Expectations |
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University of Maryland |
| 2025 |
To be announced! |
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UC Los Angeles |
