THE DICKENS SOCIETY
Last updated: 20 March 1998.
- 1998 DICKENS SYMPOSIUM
- 1997 DICKENS SYMPOSIUM
Forty Dickensians attending the 1970 MLA Convention in New York voted on 29 December 1970 to found THE DICKENS SOCIETY. The Society was later incorporated as a non-profit organization in Illinois in February 1971. Dickens Quarterly, the Society's journal, began as Dickens Studies Newsletter in 1970; a New Series started in March 1984, when the title changed to Dickens Quarterly. The Society exists "to conduct, encourage, foster and further support research, publication, instruction and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles Dickens."
SOCIETY OFFICERS FOR 1998
President: Harry Stone (California State University, Northridge)
Vice President: Duane DeVries (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY)
Secretary / Treasurer: Robert Heaman (Wilkes University)
Program Chair for 1998: Robert Heaman (Wilkes University)
The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize. The Dickens Society awards each year a prize of $100.00 for the best essay submitted to Dickens Quarterly by a graduate student enrolled in a degree program. The essay will appear in the journal designated as the Partlow Prize essay of the year.
Membership in the Dickens Society. Annual subscriptions to the journal automatically provide membership in The Dickens Society and entitle members to participate in the Society's affairs at the Annual General Business Meeting held every December at the Modern Language Association Convention. Please note: attendance at any of the Society's paper sessions is open to all and not restricted to members. Contributing members of the Society pay an additional $30 to the annual subscription; Life Membership is also available for a single payment of $400. Since the Society is a legally approved tax-exempt organization, donors may deduct contributions, gifts, legacies, and transfers from their tax returns.
Dickens Quarterly
A scholarly journal devoted to the study of the life, times, & works of Charles Dickens
Dickens Quarterly (ISSN 0742-5473) -- formerly Dickens Studies Newsletter -- is published in March, June, September and December at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Subscriptions: subscriptions, payable in U. S. dollars, are for individuals and institutions, &20 (U. S.) and $25 (Foreign). Please send checks or money orders to:
Ms Arlene Bubrow, Department of English
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Back issues of the journal are available from the address above at $7 a copy.
Contributors: Please submit two typescript copies, together with an envelope and return postage to:
Professor David Paroissien
General Editor, Dickens Quarterly
Department of English, Barlett Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, 01003
Dickens Quarterly publishes shorter articles (up to twenty-five typed pages), notes and reviews. Contributors should follow Walter S. Achtert and Joseph Gibaldi, The MLA Style Manual 81985). All accepted contributions must be presented on disks (PC only).
Dickens Quarterly is indexed by the following publications: American Humanities Index, Current Contents, Literary Criticism Registrar, MLA Research Data Bank, and Year's Work in English Studies. The Institute for Scientific Information, which publishes Current Contents, also includes author abstracts in its on-line files, Scisearch and Current Contents Search.
Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of a specific client, is granted by the Dickens Society, provided that the base fee of US $5.00 per copy, plus US $0.05 per page is paid directly to copyright Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970 USA. For those organizations that have been granted a photocopy license by CCC, a separate system of payment has been arranged. The fee code for all users of the Transactional Reporting Service is 0742-5473/93 $5.00 + $0.05.
Second class postage paid at Amherst, MA, Postmaster: please notify the General Editor (see above) of changes of address.
DICKENS QUARTERLY
Volume XV, Number 1 (March 1998)
Articles
- Beatriz Vegh: Hard Times Gone Modernist: The 1921 Rafael Barradas Illustrations for Tiempos Difíciles
- Jerome Meckier: Great Expectations: Symmetry in (Com)motion
- John M. L. Drew: The Nineteenth-Century Commercial Traveler and Dickens's "Uncommercial" Philosophy (Part One)
Reviews
- Paul Schlicke on Michael Slater: The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism. Vol.2. The Amusements of People and Other Papers
- Mark Cronin on Daniel Born: The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells.
- Janice Carlisle on Jan B. Gordon: Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction: Echo's Economies
The Dickens Checklist -- Patricia Matthew
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIV, Number 4 (December 1997)
Articles
- Michael Hollington: Dickens, Household Words, and the Paris Boulevards (Part Two)
- Robert R. Garnett: Why Not Sophy? Desire and Agnes in David Copperfield
- Jay Stubblefield: "What Shall I Say I Am -- To-day?": Subjectivity and Accountability in Frankenstein and Great Expectations
Notes
- Peter Merchant: Great Expectations and "Elizabeth Villiers"
Reviews
- Michael Hollington, ed.: Charles Dickens Critical Assessments, 4 vols.
- Graham Law, ed.: Hard Times
- Brian Rosenberg: Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens
- John Harvey: Men in Black
The Dickens Checklist -- Patricia Matthew
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Dickens Society Meeting: Business
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIV, Number 3 (September 1997)
Articles
- John R. Reed: Dickens's Military Men
- Lawrence Jay Dessner: "I Rise with Circumstances": Making it in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit
- Michael Hollington: Dickens, Household Words, and the Paris Boulevards (Part One)
Review Essays
- Jerome Meckier: The Everyman Dickens
- Paul Puccio: Victorian Sexuality
The Dickens Checklist -- Patricia Matthew
Announcements
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIV, Number 2 (June 1997)
- William F. Axton: In Memoriam Robert B. Partlow, Jr.
- Robert L. Patten: Tribute to Robert B. Partlow, Jr.
Articles
- Anny Sadrin: The Trappings of Romance in Jane Eyre and Great Expectations
- Daniel F. Tritter: Mr. Jaggers at the Bar
Review Essay
- Joel J. Brattin: Everyone and Everything in Dickens
Reviews
- Michael Steig on Robert L. Patten: George Cruikshank: Life, Times and Art. Volume 2: 1835-1878
- Robert J. Dunn on James Eli Adams: Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Manhood
- Margaret Wiley on Amanda Anderson: Tainted Souls and Painted Faces; on Deborah Epstein Nord: Walking the Victorian Streets
The Dickens Checklist -- Diane Hébert
Announcements
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIV, Number 1 (March 1997)
Articles
- Syd Thomas: "Pretty Woman, Elegantly Framed": The Fate of Bella Wilfer in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
- Goldie Morgentaler: Dickens and Reproduction
- Harland S. Nelson: Dickens, Religion, and Nubile Girls
Announcements
Reviews
- Susan Shatto on Madeline House, Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson, eds.: Dickens and ThackerayThe Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Vol.8: 1856-1858
- George J. Worth on Graham Smith: Charles Dickens: A Literary Life
- Brian Rosenberg on Michael Pointer: Charles Dickens on the Screen; on Doré (1861) and 130 Other Victorian Illustrations
- Patricia O'Hara on Andrew H. Miller: Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative
The Dickens Checklist -- Diane Hébert
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIII, Number 4 (December 1996)
Articles
- K. J. Fielding: Dickens and Science?
- Margaret Wiley: Mother's Milk and Dombey's Son
Reviews
- Deborah A. Thomas on John R. Reed: Dickens and Thackeray
- Joel J. Brattin on Carol A. Martin: George Eliot's Serial Fiction
Visiting Gad's Hill Place
The Dickens Checklist -- Diane Hébert
Announcements
The Twenty-Seventh Annual Dickens Society Meeting: Business
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIII, Number 3 (September 1996)
Articles
- John M. L. Drew: Voyages Extraordinaries: Dickens's "travelling essays" and The Uncommercial Taveller (Part Two)
- M. Gabriella Caponi-Doherty: Charles Dickens and the Italian Risorgimento
- Martine Hennard Dutheil: Great Expectations as Reading Lesson
Reviews
- Trey Philpotts on Jeremy Tambling: Dickens, Violence and the Modern State
- Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. on Elaine Hadley: Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885
Dijon Conference
The Dickens Checklist--Diane Hébert
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIII, Number 2 (June 1996)
Articles
- David Parker: Dickens and the Death of Mary Hogarth
- John M. L. Drew: Voyages Extraordinaries: Dickens's "travelling essays" and The Uncommercial Taveller (Part One)
- Gareth Cordery: Furniss, Dickens and Illustrations (Part One)
Reviews
- Ella Westland on Gail Turley Houston: Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class, and Hunger in Dickens's Novels
- Lawrence Frank on Donald E. Hall, ed.: Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age
The Dickens Checklist--Diane Hébert
Notes on Contributors
Volume XIII, Number 1 (March 1996)
Articles
- Norris Pope, "The Old Curiosity Shop and the New: Dickens and the Age of Machinery"
- John O. Jordan, "Partings Welded Together: Self-fashioning in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre"
- Gareth Cordery, "Furniss, Dickens and Illustrations" (Part One)
Reviews
- Richard J. Dunn on John Peck, ed., New Casebooks: David Copperfield and Hard Times
- Joel J. Brattin on Roger D. Sell, ed., Great Expectations; on Janice Carlisle, ed., Great Expectations
- Harland S. Nelson on Michael Timko, Fred Kaplan, and Edward Guiliano, eds.: Dickens Studies Annual
The Dickens Checklist--Diane Hébert
Notes on Contributors
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