..., nineteenth-century novels map out possible connections in a globalizing world. In parsing the interplay of isolation and imaginary sympathy in two texts of the 1850s, Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, I argue that the experience of feeling foreign while...

... forces of patriarchy, capitalism, and ‘toxic masculinity’. Miss Havisham Great Expectations Charles Dickens gender feminism Dickensian An angry woman is an unstable one, herrage never able to be understood assomethingcorrect and justifiable, onlyunwieldy and volatile...

... Charles Dickens Harmonious Blacksmith storytelling In Great Expectations (1860–61), Pip and Herbert’s formal introduction to each other in London is a rare occasion on which Pip discloses his first name to someone else, and even more unexpectedly, accepts a blacksmith-related nickname...

..., and of the critical opposition that defines the Newgate genre of the 1830s and 40s. Jack Sheppard, alongside Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, is shown to both depict and exploit contemporary concerns about the harmful influence of popular literature which were exacerbated by the Courvoisier case...

...Daniel Martin © 2017 Leeds Trinity University 2017 Abstract This essay explores Charles Dickens’s railway journalism of the 1850s and 1860s and its differences from his more well-known fictional accounts of the British railway network. While fictional works such as Dombey and Son...

...Alistair Robinson Cannibalism vagrancy Charles Dickens Great Expectations homeless homelessness hunger In his vehement protest that the English could never be cannibals, Dickens was very much of his time. Charles Kingsley, in his rip-roaring maritime adventure, Westward Ho...

..., and, for varying amounts of time, practising occultists Arthur Machen and A. E. Waite used their literary criticism to champion the ecstatic occult potential of mass-circulated popular fiction, insisting that the penny dreadful, the newspaper story, and the popular picaresque as exemplified in Charles Dickens’s...

... Aitkins presented several readings to a packed house at the inner-city St Barnabas Church of Parramatta Street in Sydney. It was reported that she gave one of the most – of the many – affecting episodes in Charles Dickens’ story of ‘Bleak House’ – the death of Jo, the crossing sweeper. The delivery...

...Jasper Schelstraete; Jennifer Scott © 2014 Leeds Trinity University 2014 Abstract During the tumultuous time of financial and colonial expansion between 1825 and 1855, both Charles Dickens and John Galt published picaresque novels depicting transatlantic travel and land speculation. If emigration...

..., we have been favoured with passages from the personal history, adventures, and experience of Charles Dickens. ³⁰ In The Life of Charles Dickens (1872–74) published shortly after Dickens's death, Dickens's biographer and friend, John Forster, also captured this public sentiment...

... by marginal presences, arriving from the imperial East, but they may also give voice to a future revival. Something of the changeability in Dickens's feeling for established religion can be glimpsed in this duality. Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood religion choral music cathedral...

... intersects with the implications that we can read into the posture of the lounging opium smoker. Extensive scholarship has already established the relationship between the East and opium in fictional works by Thomas de Quincey, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. Music is an essential ingredient...

...J. E. Cosnett * Address correspondence to J. E. Cosnett, 268 Manning Road, Glenwood, Durban 4001, Natal, South Africa. 01 11 1991 Summary Using the characters of his novels as the canvas, Charles Dickens painted vivid word pictures of a variety of manifestations of sleep and its disorders...

... between Capra's master, D. W. Griffith, and Sterne's disciple, Charles Dickens. Johnson Samuel reflection reflexivity sentiment alignment with sympathy sentimental mode affect affective association Clarissa Richardson articulation of spaces in Richardson Samuel on alternation of epistolary...

... reflection and double mirroring Deleuze Gilles circulation Aumont on sentimental journey subgenre banalization of Goldsmith Oliver Scott Walter The Antiquary Vicar of Wakefield The Goldsmith Waverley Scott Anderson Benedict Conrad Joseph Chance Eliot George Frank Capra Charles Dickens It's...

...This chapter draws upon the work of play theorist Brian Sutton-Smith, and Charles Dickens, to present an extensive albeit provisional taxonomy of play in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, revealing the extent to which the concept of play infiltrates the infrastructure of everyday...

..., The Republic in Print, which makes the case that multiple, overlapping networks—mail, print, money, and roads—interrupted each other and frustrated the work of consolidating a new nation. The second is Charles Dickens's Bleak House, a novel that casts social relations as a complex...

...Chapter four looks at Charles Dickens’s 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities. By examining parallels between the novel and Robespierre’s political philosophy, this chapter argues that Dickens’s novel understands the French Revolution not as an event that gave individuals the right...

...This chapter provides readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Bleak House that responds to a critical tradition which sees philanthropy as a failed effort to transform the system, ultimately acting in concert with supervisory institutions...

... in nineteenth-century accounts of London life. This analysis ranges from Charles Dickens’s reflections on the process of capturing the dynamism of the modern city to Albert Smith’s popular Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Character (1849) and culminates with the print remediation of one...