This article explores the post-colonial ironies and complexities of teaching the novels of Charles Dickens in the north Lebanese city of Tripoli during a teaching assignment between the years 2007–2011. The starting point of the article is an engagement with Dickens’s reception among Lebanese students, accounting for the enthusiasm with which the students embraced his novels, particularly Oliver Twist. The undergraduates, who were bi- or trilingual, claimed the novelist spoke directly to them, despite the fact that he wrote in English and was concerned with existence over 150 years ago. Anecdotal discussion and interview material is brought to bear in an assessment of the affinities Dickens’s style might have with current popular aesthetic ...
Charles Dickens, a prolific, literary figure of Victorian era- reelects through and exquisite pictur...
International audienceThis collection of essays entitled Dickensian Prospects aims to put Dickens’s ...
Charles Dickens’s work has been taken and adapted for many different ends. Quite a lot of attention ...
This article explores the post-colonial ironies and complexities of teaching the novels of Charles D...
The essay explores the idea of Dickensian topography, in relation both to Dickens’s own preoccupatio...
This paper seeks to discuss Charles Dickens’ literary depiction of the city of London, and its effec...
This article is a translation by the author of “El periodismo de Charles Dickens: ‘corresponsal espe...
Such has been Dickens’ popularity, that we see today evidence of the activity of his readers all aro...
This article intends to delineate the meaning of Dickens in the contemporary world and for contempor...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
Oliver Twist, with its developments very often dependent on coincidences, and with its hero who is `...
This paper discusses Charles Dickens’ expert weaving of realism into his very entertaining 1838 nove...
This special issue of the Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens initially published in 2012 means to cel...
In today’s Dickens Studies, “Global Dickens” is all the critical rage. Yet the landmark work on glob...
The first part of this paper focuses on a close reading of certain episodes from book two of Dickens...
Charles Dickens, a prolific, literary figure of Victorian era- reelects through and exquisite pictur...
International audienceThis collection of essays entitled Dickensian Prospects aims to put Dickens’s ...
Charles Dickens’s work has been taken and adapted for many different ends. Quite a lot of attention ...
This article explores the post-colonial ironies and complexities of teaching the novels of Charles D...
The essay explores the idea of Dickensian topography, in relation both to Dickens’s own preoccupatio...
This paper seeks to discuss Charles Dickens’ literary depiction of the city of London, and its effec...
This article is a translation by the author of “El periodismo de Charles Dickens: ‘corresponsal espe...
Such has been Dickens’ popularity, that we see today evidence of the activity of his readers all aro...
This article intends to delineate the meaning of Dickens in the contemporary world and for contempor...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
Oliver Twist, with its developments very often dependent on coincidences, and with its hero who is `...
This paper discusses Charles Dickens’ expert weaving of realism into his very entertaining 1838 nove...
This special issue of the Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens initially published in 2012 means to cel...
In today’s Dickens Studies, “Global Dickens” is all the critical rage. Yet the landmark work on glob...
The first part of this paper focuses on a close reading of certain episodes from book two of Dickens...
Charles Dickens, a prolific, literary figure of Victorian era- reelects through and exquisite pictur...
International audienceThis collection of essays entitled Dickensian Prospects aims to put Dickens’s ...
Charles Dickens’s work has been taken and adapted for many different ends. Quite a lot of attention ...