As part of the Festival of English Open Lecture Series, Professor Malcolm Andrews will give an Open Lecture on ‘Dickens’s “Imaginary Worlds” in Kent: from Pickwick to Drood’ on Tuesday 27 October at 18.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2.

A wine reception will follow in the Grimond foyer. All are welcome.

Malcolm Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent and, since 1991, the Editor of The Dickensian. He has published on Dickens and on landscape art (Landscape and Western Art, OUP) and the Picturesque, and is currently working on a study of the evolution of iconic English landscape imagery. His most recent book is entitled Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour.