Charles Dickens Museum hosts Dickens Graduate Day
The Charles Dickens Museum and the Birkbeck Centre for Victorian Studies have organised a special Graduate seminar to celebrate Dickens's Bi-Centenary.
Event details
When: Saturday 10 March, 11am-5.30pm
Where: Dickens Museum, 48, Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
The Charles Dickens Museum and the Birkbeck Centre for Victorian Studies have organised a special Graduate seminar to celebrate Dickens's Bi-Centenary.
The seminar will be led by the museum’s scholar in residence, Professor Robert Patten (Rice University), and will take place at the Museum, based in 48 Doughty Street, the author’s only surviving London home.
This seminar is free and open to all nineteenth-century graduate students (MA and PhD) on a strictly first come first served basis. Booking is required. Please note there are only 25 places available.
To book a place, please email: gore@pt.lu (Mike Georgen)
The day will cover a tour of the house and a seminar on serial publication and the ending of Great Expectations.
Readings for the seminar:
Great Expectations (any edition, though we would recommend Edgar Rosenberg’s Norton edition)
Michael Lund and Linda K. Hughes, "Introducing the Serial”, The Victorian Serial (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991), 1-14. (Photocopies will be sent via email)
Please read in particular Edgar Rosenberg's remarks on the endings of the novel, in his Norton edition (photocopies will be sent by email)
The ending of any film version of GE. We would recommend David Lean's 1946 film (this can be watched in Youtube), Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 version, or the recent BBC one.