PROGRAMME
DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
17-20 JULY, 2008

THURSDAY 17 JULY

1300-1800 Register at Kingston University Kingston Hill Campus
(it will also be possible to register on Friday morning).

1930-2130 Drop in dinner (paid for by diners) at a central Kingston restaurant.

FRIDAY 18 JULY

0900 Assemble.

0915 Welcome.

0945 Panel 1: Social Contexts: Chair Edgar Rosenberg (Cornell University).

Katharina Boehm (King’s College London). ‘London Geographies of Child Health – Charles Dickens and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.’
Adelene Buckland (University of Cambridge). ‘Pictures in the Fire: Coal, History and Fictional Form in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.’
Trey Philpotts (Arkansas Tech University). ‘Mad Bulls and Dead Meat: Smithfield Market as Victorian Symbol.’

1100 Coffee Break.

1115 Panel 2: Biography. Chair Natalie Cole (Oakland University).

Robert Garnett (Gettysburg College). ‘Re-visiting Warren’s Blacking and Lombard Street.’
Lillian Nayder (Bates College). “Catherine Georgina,” or, What’s in a Name? Understanding the Hogarth Sisterhood.’
Margaret Flanders Darby (Colgate University). ‘The Conservatory at Gad’s Hill Place.’

1230 Lunch break.

1400 Panel 3: Characters. Chair to be decided

Meoghan Byrne Cronin (Saint Anselm College). “’My Lady Fair the Conjurer Plays”: Miss Havisham and the Victorian Dangerous Bride.’
Gareth Cordery (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). ‘Making the Acquaintance of Miss Mowcher.’
Joel J. Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). ‘Dick Swiveller’s Bed.’
Jane K. Asher (Wayne State University). ‘David’s Blank Spaces and Ignominious Faces: Unmasking the Affect of Shame in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield.’

1535 Tea break.

1550 Panel 4: Illustrations. Chair to be decided.

Leon Litvack (Queen’s University, Belfast). ‘Marcus Stone: A Reassessment.’
Chris Louttit (University of Leicester). ‘Re-illustrating Dickens: The Household Edition of His Novels.’
Philip V. Allingham (Lakehead University). ‘Frederick Barnard’s Martin Chuzzlewit Illustrations (1870).’

1710 Free time. Optional activity to be announced.

SATURDAY 19 JULY

0900 Panel 5: Technique. Chair Tony Williams (Dickens Fellowship/University of Buckingham).

Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge). ‘Man and Woman Made He Them: Mr Dickens Speaks in Two Voices.’
David Paroissien (University of Buckingham). ‘The “Strange Power of Speech” Telling and Technique in Great Expectations.’
Robert Tracy (University of California, Berkeley). “’There’s no business like show business!”: Theatrical Conventions in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.’
David Parker (Kingston University). ‘The Artistry of Pickwick Papers: A Palindromic Chapter.’

1035 Coffee Break.

1050 Panel 6: Social and Literary Contexts. Chair Leon Litvack (Queen’s University, Belfast).

John Bowen (University of York). “The Genres of Pickwick.’
Kelley Mandeville (Oakland University). ‘Betraying Dinner: Improper Dining in Little Dorrit.’
Nancy Aycock Metz (Virginia Tech University). ‘Dickens and the American “Logocracy.”’
Mark Cronin (Saint Anselm College). ‘”A Gravestone on His Fame”: Charles Dickens, Charles Lever and the Knight of Gwynne.’

1230 Lunch break.

1400 Panel 7: Characters. Chair to be decided.

Anita Fernandez Young and Robert Young (University of Nottingham). ‘The Character Structure of Great Expectations: A Graph Theory Approach to Analysis.’
Bert Hornback (University of Michigan, retired). “Judging Eugene Wrayburn.’
Robert Heaman (Wilkes University). ‘Esther Summerson as Artist.’

1515 Tea Break.

Panel 8 Biography. Chair Avril Horner (Kingston University).

Jenny Hartley (Roehampton University). ‘Dickens and the House of Fallen Women.’
Jane Jordan (Kingston University). ‘Dickens’ Autobiographical Fragment and the Gendering of Nineteenth Century Confessional Life-Writing.’

1630 Dickens Society Annual General Meeting.

1700 Free time. Optional activity to be announced.

2000 Banquet.

SUNDAY 20 JULY

0900 Panel 9: Themes and Plots. Chair to be decided.

David J. Smith (Pennsylvania State University). ‘Visions of the Shadowy World: From A Christmas Carol to Bleak House.’
Leslie Simon (Boston University). ‘Collecting Dust: Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend and the Disintegrating Modern Self.’
Jennifer Gribble (University of Sydney). ‘The Bible in Great Expectations.’
Tamara Silvia Wagner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). ‘Circumlocuting Exotic Legacies: The Aborted Detective Plot of Little Dorrit.’

1015 Coffee break.

1030 Panel 10: Adaptations. Chair to be decided.

Pamela Atzori (University of Aberystwyth). ‘Citoyen Charles Dickens: French Television Adaptations of the Works of Charles Dickens.’
Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence College). ‘The Portable Dickens: Great Expectations and the Dickensian Pilgrimage of Mister Pip.’

1200 Lunch.

Optional activity to be announced.

THE DICKENS SOCIETY THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON, 17-20 JULY 2008

The Symposium will take place at the Kingston Hill Campus of Kingston University, a ten-minute bus ride from the centre of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Accommodation for those wanting it, meeting rooms, and refreshment facilities, will all be provided on campus. You can sign in on campus either during the afternoon of Thursday 17 July, or during the morning of Friday 18 July. If you book a room on campus, you will be able to occupy it during the Thursday afternoon. The first gathering of the symposium will be a Thursday evening dinner (at the diner's expense) in a restaurant in Kingston town centre.

The on-campus accommodation (Thursday night to Sunday morning) will be in student housing. Large, modern, high-standard rooms will be provided, with en suite bathrooms (shower but no tub). Only single rooms are available, but partners can be accommodated in adjacent rooms. Fees paid by those staying on campus, and attending the symposium, cover breakfast, lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not dinner (beginning with breakfast Friday and finishing with lunch Sunday). Fees for partners staying on campus, but not taking part in the symposium, cover just bed and breakfast.
Two conveniently situated hotels offer accommodation for those preferring to stay off campus. Plain, decent en suite rooms at the Travelodge in Old London Road (www.travelodge.co.uk) can be had for as little as £15 per night by those booking early. A breakfast bag costs £4.50. Close also to many restaurants and cafés in Kingston town centre, the Travelodge is three minutes' walk from a bus stop, where buses depart for the Kingston Hill Campus, eight minutes away. The Kingston Lodge Hotel on Kingston Hill (kingstonlodge@brook-hotels.co.uk) offers comfortable en suite rooms and a substantial breakfast from £95 per night. It is less than five minutes by bus to Kingston Hill Campus.
Fees for those choosing to stay off campus cover lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but neither breakfast nor dinner.
The Saturday night banquet will be on campus, and is priced separately. Payments for events and excursions, yet to be finalised and announced, will be collected during the Symposium. All fees are inclusive of Value Added Tax.

Fees should be paid, not later than 31 May, by cheque or international money order, made out to the Dickens Society, in either pounds sterling or US dollars. To print out a copy of this form go to: http://dickensquarterly.org/BookingForm.pdf
Send the completed form with payment in pounds sterling to David Paroissien, 100 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 7NE, UK. Payments in US dollars should be posted to Bob Heaman, 35 Port Jenkins Lane, White Haven, PA 18661, USA.

Note Bed and breakfast accommodation, before and after the Symposium, can be booked, subject to availability, at Kingston University's Seeting Wells Campus. Contact dorich.house@kingston.ac.uk.

For detailed information about getting to and from Kingston, please click on the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ahdg72pw37zb_19fdxds5gn&invite=hd9w5vj

DICKENS QUARTERLY

March 2008
Volume 25 Number 1

ARTICLES

Christine Alexander: The Juvenilia of Charles Dickens: Romance and Reality 3

Leslie Simon: Archives of the Interior: Exhibitions of Domesticity
in The Pickwick Papers 23

Nancy Metz: Italy: The Sequel 37


REVIEW ESSAY

Trey Philpotts on Leon Litvack: Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son: An Annotated
Bibliography; on Robert C. Hanna: Dickens's Nonfictional, Theatrical, and Poetical
Writings: An Annotated Bibliography, 1820-2000 46


REVIEWS

Francesco Marroni on Paul Davis: Critical Companion to Charles Dickens: A
Literary Reference to His Life and Work; on Ian Brinton: Dickens's Great
Expectations: A Reader's Guide 52

Brigid Lowe on Rachel Ablow: The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot 55

Patrick McCarthy on Lloyd Jones: Mr. Pip 59


ANNOUNCEMENTS 61


THE DICKENS CHECKLIST - Elizabeth Bridgham 65


NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 70

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
and the College of General Studies, Boston University.
Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

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Copyright 2008 by the Dickens Society

DICKENS QUARTERLY

December 2007
Volume 24 Number 4

ARTICLES
George Goodin: The Uses and Usages of Muddle (part two) 201
Eleanor McNees: Reluctant Source: Murray's Handbooks and Pictures from Italy 211
John M. L. Drew: Pictures from The Daily News: Context, Correspondents, and
Correlations 230


REVIEWS
Juliet John on Sally Ledger: Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination 247
Goldie Morgentaler on Nancy Armstrong: How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 250
Meoghan Cronin on Tamara Wagner: Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 253


THE THIRTY-EIGHTH DICKENS SOCIETY MEETING AND BUSINESS 257


ANNOUNCEMENTS 260


THE DICKENS CHECKLIST - Elizabeth Bridgham 266


NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 271

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University.
Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

DQ

Copyright 2007 by the Dickens Society

13th ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
17-20 July 2008

Papers on any aspect of Dickens's life and work are invited for the 13th Annual Dickens Symposium, which will be held at Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, from July 17-20, 2008. Central London is approximately 25 minutes away by train. Kingston is also served by a direct bus from Heathrow, and by train from Gatwick airport. Accommodations will be available at both local hotels and in rooms in one of the university's modern halls of residence. Proposals should be limited to a single typed page, and final papers must be readable in 20 minutes.
Please send proposals to:

David Parker
16 Alric Avenue
New Malden, Surrey
England, KT3 4JN
Email: dbozparker@aol.com

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 1ST APRIL 2008

DICKENS QUARTERLY


September 2007

Volume 24 Number 3

ARTICLES
George Goodin: The Uses and Usages of Muddle (part one) 135
Barry Tharaud: Form as Process in The Pickwick Papers:
The Structure of Ethical Discovery 145
Robert Tracy: W. C. Macready in The Life and Adventures of
Nicholas Nickleby 159
Stephen Bertman: Dante’s Role in the Genesis of Dickens’s
A Christmas Carol 167

REVIEWS
David Paroissien on Malcolm Andrews: Charles Dickens and
His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings 176
Matthew Rubery on Harold Bloom, ed.: Charles Dickens’s
A Tale of Two Cities 179
Margaret Flanders Darby on Daniel Hack: The Material Interests
of the Victorian Novel 182

Malcolm Andrews: A Tribute to Philip Collins 186
David Paroissien: A Snapshot from Genoa 188

13TH ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM 191

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST – Elizabeth Bridgham 192

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 198

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University. Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

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Copyright 2007 by the Dickens Society