{"title":"The Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory by Margaret Flanders Darby (review)","authors":"D. Rainsford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"474 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42319175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Van Gogh developed a penchant for British literature while in London in his early twenties. He revered Charles Dickens and was sympathetically drawn to Hard Times, among other titles. The theme of industrialism, central to the novel, also features prominently in the newly fledged artist's works. The impact of modern industry on the environment and human existence was his overriding concern in his Belgian period when he lived in the Borinage, a coal-mining and industrial region, in 1878–80. This article explores (dis) similarities between the two artists' visions of industrial society, as represented in Hard Times and the painter's Borinage-related production. A comparative study of their industrial text and image illuminates their shared artistic responses to the pivotal public agendas of their era, pinpointing common ground in their perceptions and appraisals of the new capitalist civilization of nineteenth-century Europe.
{"title":"Van Gogh and Hard Times","authors":"J. Choe","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Van Gogh developed a penchant for British literature while in London in his early twenties. He revered Charles Dickens and was sympathetically drawn to Hard Times, among other titles. The theme of industrialism, central to the novel, also features prominently in the newly fledged artist's works. The impact of modern industry on the environment and human existence was his overriding concern in his Belgian period when he lived in the Borinage, a coal-mining and industrial region, in 1878–80. This article explores (dis) similarities between the two artists' visions of industrial society, as represented in Hard Times and the painter's Borinage-related production. A comparative study of their industrial text and image illuminates their shared artistic responses to the pivotal public agendas of their era, pinpointing common ground in their perceptions and appraisals of the new capitalist civilization of nineteenth-century Europe.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"411 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44734824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In April 1840 a rumor in London that Dickens had become insane was transmitted by metropolitan correspondents to Irish and American newspapers. Dickens became aware of the gossip by September, and confronted it in a personal statement in the Preface to the first volume of Master Humphrey's Clock. It is suggested that the poor reception of the opening numbers of the Clock, and Dickens's recent acrimonious dispute with the publisher Richard Bentley may have contributed to the rumor. The course of the rumor and Dickens's reaction to it are compared to the spread of gossip and Dickens's response to it sixteen years later, when his marriage collapsed.
{"title":"\"It is said that Dickens is Insane\": Documenting a Rumor","authors":"William F. Long","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In April 1840 a rumor in London that Dickens had become insane was transmitted by metropolitan correspondents to Irish and American newspapers. Dickens became aware of the gossip by September, and confronted it in a personal statement in the Preface to the first volume of Master Humphrey's Clock. It is suggested that the poor reception of the opening numbers of the Clock, and Dickens's recent acrimonious dispute with the publisher Richard Bentley may have contributed to the rumor. The course of the rumor and Dickens's reaction to it are compared to the spread of gossip and Dickens's response to it sixteen years later, when his marriage collapsed.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"452 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48741214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Throughout his fiction, Dickens's work depicts predatory behavior that could be defined as stalking or obsessional following. Recurrent in the plots and subplots are disturbing instances of unwanted intrusion that interrogate the act of stalking by various individuals. Many such encounters focus on intimacy-seeking male suitors who not only pursue love interests but become fixated to an irreversible degree, even after being rejected. Dickens positions such men throughout his novels, initially caricaturing them as fools or hopeless romantics before developing their characters with greater complexity and critical emphasis. Ultimately such rejected men are foregrounded to the point that their passion, pathology, and violence play a central role in the author's narratives.
{"title":"\"No shadow of another parting\": Unrequited Love, Stalking, and Dickens's Rejected Men","authors":"Daniella Stuart","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Throughout his fiction, Dickens's work depicts predatory behavior that could be defined as stalking or obsessional following. Recurrent in the plots and subplots are disturbing instances of unwanted intrusion that interrogate the act of stalking by various individuals. Many such encounters focus on intimacy-seeking male suitors who not only pursue love interests but become fixated to an irreversible degree, even after being rejected. Dickens positions such men throughout his novels, initially caricaturing them as fools or hopeless romantics before developing their characters with greater complexity and critical emphasis. Ultimately such rejected men are foregrounded to the point that their passion, pathology, and violence play a central role in the author's narratives.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"429 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46651653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthew Lamert's Military Record: Clarifying the Lamert Family Origins","authors":"Helena Kelly","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"319 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47967025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Oliver Twist is one of Dickens's best-loved novels, the hero known within a wider cultural context. But how well do we really know Dickens's character, one of the first child protagonists. This article proposes that we have missed the complexity the character embodies, both as a formal construct in which Dickens develops skills of psychological acuity, and as an entity who struggles with his own author-designated role as "the principle of Good."
{"title":"\"How do you solve a problem like Oliver?\": Character and Complexity in Oliver Twist","authors":"Tamsin Evernden","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Oliver Twist is one of Dickens's best-loved novels, the hero known within a wider cultural context. But how well do we really know Dickens's character, one of the first child protagonists. This article proposes that we have missed the complexity the character embodies, both as a formal construct in which Dickens develops skills of psychological acuity, and as an entity who struggles with his own author-designated role as \"the principle of Good.\"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"233 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47732216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Although Catherine Crowe receives almost no attention today, she was an immensely popular writer of plays, novels, short stories, compilations, children's and young adult literature, translations, and scientific articles during the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to being well known in artistic social circles, Crowe cultivated a cordial social and working relationship with Charles Dickens, who published three of her works and publicly praised her writing. Yet after the aging Crowe endured a one-time mental break, Dickens quickly began gossiping about her to several correspondents. His mocking, unsympathetic reaction to Crowe's temporary illness contrasts considerations Dickens affords various mental illness sufferers in his fiction and nonfiction works. However, this paper argues that Dickens' response aligns with evidence that Dickens unsuccessfully attempted to have his wife Catherine declared insane, consequently providing further insight into Dickens's perceptions of female mental illness while bringing attention to the formerly prevalent author Catherine Crowe.
{"title":"Catherine Crowe, Charles Dickens, and Perceptions of Female Insanity","authors":"Katherine J. Kim","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although Catherine Crowe receives almost no attention today, she was an immensely popular writer of plays, novels, short stories, compilations, children's and young adult literature, translations, and scientific articles during the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to being well known in artistic social circles, Crowe cultivated a cordial social and working relationship with Charles Dickens, who published three of her works and publicly praised her writing. Yet after the aging Crowe endured a one-time mental break, Dickens quickly began gossiping about her to several correspondents. His mocking, unsympathetic reaction to Crowe's temporary illness contrasts considerations Dickens affords various mental illness sufferers in his fiction and nonfiction works. However, this paper argues that Dickens' response aligns with evidence that Dickens unsuccessfully attempted to have his wife Catherine declared insane, consequently providing further insight into Dickens's perceptions of female mental illness while bringing attention to the formerly prevalent author Catherine Crowe.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"277 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45444750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf by Jacob Jewusiak (review)","authors":"Leslie S. Simon","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":"38 1","pages":"337 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45867142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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