Charles Dickens

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Approaching Literature: Reading Great Expectations	Open University online course on literary analysis and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.	Fiction, Novels, Analysis, Victorian, Nineteenth-century, Charles Dickens	view
Dickens in Context	Video lectures, notes, and readings on Dicken’s works and their contexts.	Charles Dickens, Victorian, Nineteenth-century, Fiction, Manuscripts, Novels	view
Fallen Woman or Fallen Man? Representations of moral responsibility, punishment and reward in George Frederic Watts’s painting Found Drowned (1848-50) and Charles Dickens’s novel Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) by Susan Knights	This article will examine gendered representations of moral responsibility by comparing its treatment of fallen women in the above artefacts....	19th century, Victorian Culture, Gender, Equality, Charles Dickens, George Frederic Watts	view
High Times: Depictions of the Opium Den in Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré’s London: A Pilgrimage by Wafiyyah Ali	Abstract: The opium den inhabits a unique place in the Victorian imagination. Equal parts abode of pleasure and signifier of moral decay, the...	Charles Dickens, 19th cent, opium den	view
Introduction - handout	Handout for introductory class	Evangelicalism, romanticism, Charles Dickens	view
Millais, Dickens and the ‘idea’ of a picture by Paul Shaw	One of the earliest works Millais painted under the new Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood banner was later known as Christ in the House of...	Millais, 19th century, Charles Dickens	view
Narratives of Disability in A Christmas Carol and Little Dorrit by Andrew Bramwell	Abstract: The nineteenth century was a period when the ‘afflicted’ or ‘defective’ body was a common sight on the streets of Victorian Britain....	19th century, Victorian, Charles Dickens	view
Poverty & Society - Dickens Extracts	Selected extracts from Dicken's journalistic accounts of Victorian workhouse life.	Queen Victoria, Victorian England, 19th century, victorian history, Charles Dickens	view
Sanitation & the Great Stink	Extracts from two contemporary articles on the problem of London's sanitation - including a rather satirical view from Dickens!	Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, Nineteenth century, Charles Dickens	view
The promotion of moral values through Victorian children’s stories: Charles Dickens’s ‘Frauds on the Fairies’ (1853) and a ‘Robinson Crusoe’ nursery wallpaper design (1875-1900) by Eleri Ryley	This essay considers an article by Charles Dickens on the alteration of fairy tales alongside a nursery wallpaper design depicting scenes from the...	Charles Dickens, Fairy tales, Victorian Culture	view

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