Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…In a Freudian/gender approach to the issue of male sex identity in Charles Dickens’s fiction, the present article starts from Edmund Wilson’s seminal study ‘The Two Scrooges.’ …”
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Dickens et Gaskell ou les difficultés mid-victoriennes à dire le vieillir by Marianne Camus

“…The analysis of the representation of ageing will be limited to the midVictorian period and centred on the works of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. For if the wish to negate ageing is a constant feature of the century, the changes in social and cultural circumstances influence the forms taken by this negation or erasure. …”
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The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…As regards Dickens’s life and personality the focus is on the novelist’s frantic effort to assert his vitality and histrionic virtuosity in spite of aging and bad health, as already highlighted by his first biographer and more recently by Peter Ackroyd both in his life of Dickens and in the monologue The Mystery of Charles Dickens.…”
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From Dog Alterity to Canine Sublime: A Cross-Century Reading of Victorian Fiction by Georges Letissier

“…From Charles Dickens to Joseph Conrad dogs are omnipresent in Victorian novels. …”
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Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles by Joel J. Brattin

“…Stryver, the ‘lion’ to Sydney’s ‘jackal’; Charles Dickens, Carton’s own creator; the innocent young seamstress who shares his fate at the guillotine in the final chapter; and finally—and perhaps most revealingly—Sydney Carton himself.…”
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The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902 by Audrey Doussot

“…What can be perceived, at first, as a mere backdrop to the representation of a human being can actually reveal much about the fashioning of an author’s literary identity through images. Portraits of Charles Dickens or George Bernard Shaw, for instance, testify to the importance of staging and accessories when seeking to construct authors’ images and to depict their universe as a materialization of their character and psychological interiority.…”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…Virginia Woolf was a keen preserver of some Victorian values, and among these the art of Charles Dickens, with his representation of London, its voices, sounds, music and noises. …”
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(Auto)biography and Authority: Dickens and Forster’s Reconstruction of a ‘National Treasure’ by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper considers the reconstruction by John Forster of Charles Dickens’s childhood through his use of what is usually called ‘the autobiographical fragment’, a short text dealing with the Blacking Warehouse episode which bears witness to both Dickens’s strict auto-censorship and his tendency to frenetic confession. …”
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Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion by Florent Christol

“…This paper investigates cinema and television’s peculiar ‘love story’ with Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843). Indeed, the story of Scrooge’s life-changing encounter with the Christmas Spirits has been adapted, revised, condensed, retold, and modernized on screen more than any other work of English or American literature. …”
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Science et Fiction by Annie Escuret

“…Another paradoxical figure of the century is Charles Dickens whose works foreground outdated scientific knowledge rather than Darwin’s evolutionary theory. …”
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Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

“…Sketches by Boz has been regarded as the book that qualified Charles Dickens as being among those paragons celebrated at Mrs Leo Hunter’s déjeuner in The Pickwick Papers: ‘real authors who had written whole books’. …”
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To Read or Not to Read Dickens in the Twenty-First Century: What If He Needed to Be Read Twice?, by Nathalie Jaëck

“…I will of course concentrate on the ‘strange case’ of Charles Dickens, a case of ‘impure,’ or ‘self-dissolving’ Realism: in his fundamentally dual, self-contradicting novels, Dickens manages to build the most solid, coherent, incontestable texts, while he also develops, within the novels themselves, a dissident counterproposal, an intimate deconstruction. …”
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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…This article examines the role that conversations between children and adults play in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century adaptations of it for a child audience. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…Dr Charles West founded the hospital in 1852 and it quickly became popular with philanthropists, most notably, in the early years, Charles Dickens who described the hospital as counteracting the destructive effects of the ‘Grim Nurses: Poverty and Sickness’. …”
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London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction by Tamara Silvia Wagner

“…Writers as different as Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and also the little-known domestic novelist Emily Eden made the most of what had become a rapidly evolving space characterised by immense fluidity. …”
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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…With English Music, Ackroyd, for his part, illustrates what Clayton in his study: Charles Dickens in Cyberspace (2003) calls “undisciplined” creativity, by revisiting Great Expectations trans-artistically, through an odd combination of the pictorial, the musical, the cinematographic and the theatrical. …”
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La Convención de los Derechos del Niño veinte años después by Ligia Galvis Ortiz

“…El recorrido con el desarrollo de los antecedentes del reconocimiento de los derechos de los niños y niñas en el siglo XIX luego de que autores de la literatura universal como Charles Dickens y Jules Vallès presentaran en sus obras la situación de autoritarismo y maltrato, narrada a partir de sus experiencias. …”
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The French Actor on the London Stage: Charles Fechter by Catherine Quirk

“…Foremost among the latter group was Charles Dickens, who saw and admired Fechter’s Hamlet and quickly added the Frenchman to his group of actor-companions. …”
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 Dickens and Professor Owen ! Portrait of a Frienship by Victor Sage

“…This article concerns Charles Dickens…”
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