{"id":487,"date":"2018-10-18T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/?p=487"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:16:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:16:25","slug":"catherine-waterss-book-launch-the-oxford-handbook-of-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/2018\/10\/18\/catherine-waterss-book-launch-the-oxford-handbook-of-charles-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Waters&#8217;s book launch: The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02267.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-488 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02267-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02267-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02267-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02267-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02267-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordhandbooks.com\/view\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780198743415.001.0001\/oxfordhb-9780198743415\">The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens<\/a><\/em>, edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan and Catherine Waters was launched by Malcolm Andrews, Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Kent, on Thursday 27 September 2018. The event was sponsored by the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture and hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dickensmuseum.com\/\">Charles Dickens Museum<\/a>, the home at 48 Doughty Street, London, where Dickens wrote <em>Oliver Twist<\/em>, <em>Pickwick Papers<\/em> and <em>Nicholas Nickleby<\/em>. Present at the launch were members of the Dickens family \u2013 Mark Dickens and Lucinda Hawksley \u2013 trustees of the Museum, members of the Dickens Fellowship, Oxford University Press editors Jacqueline Norton and Aimee Wright and several contributors to the volume.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-487 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02295-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02295-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02295-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02295-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02295-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02274-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02274-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02274-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02274-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02274-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02273-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02273-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02273-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02273-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/files\/2018\/10\/DSC02273-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The new Handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays on Dickens\u2019s life and works yet published. Its more than 50 contributors come from across the globe \u2013 Australia, Canada, France, Israel, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and United States of America \u2013 reflecting the transnational reach of scholarship on Dickens. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens&#8217;s writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributors speak in new ways about his depictions of families, the environmental degradation and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms profoundly relevant to global modernity.<\/p>\n<p>As Professor Andrews concluded in launching the volume \u2013 echoing the judgement of its editors \u2013 \u2018Dickens is inexhaustible\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. 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