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In this special 45 minutes academic-led documentary, the University of Warwick's Professor Jon Mee explores the life and works of Charles Dickens and his enduring legacy.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Jon Mee,
Documentary. Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Fri 10 Feb 2012
Prof Jon Mee talks to Prof Gary Watt, from the School of Law about Dickens and how his experiences of Victorian law and order influenced his novels.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Sketches by Boz,
law,
Bleak House,
Gary Watt,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Thu 2 Feb 2012
Prof Jon Mee talks to Dr Pablo Mukherjee from the Dept of English and Comparative Literary Studies, about crime and policing in Dickens' novels. They meet in Covent Garden at Seven Dials, an area that greatly influenced the Victorian novelist.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Sketches by Boz,
Seven Dials,
crime,
Police,
Pablo Mukherjee,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Mon 6 Feb 2012
Prof Jon Mee talks to author and Charles Dickens' Great-Great-Great Granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley about Dickens' early life and the effect it had on his own writing, plus his family life and lasting legacy.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
writing,
legacy,
Lucinda Hawksley,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Thu 2 Feb 2012
Prof Jon Mee and PhD student Gabrielle Mearns discuss Dickens and Philanthropy in Bleeding Heart Yard, London, a location synonymous with the novel Little Dorrit.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Little Dorrit,
Gabrielle Mearns,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Thu 9 Feb 2012
Professor Jon Mee discusses commercialism, comedy and death with Professor Robert Patten at the Charles Dickens Museum, London, where he is the current Scholar in Residence.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Jon Mee,
Robert Patten. comedy,
death,
commercialism,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Thu 9 Feb 2012
Professor Jon Mee and Dr Sarah Richardson
discuss Dickens' novel Hard Times and his political views within a historical context.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Hard Times,
Dr Sarah Richardson,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Fri 10 Feb 2012
Prof Gary Watt from the School of Law reads an extract from Dickens' 1836 novel 'Sketches by Boz'.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Sketches by Boz,
Pablo Mukherjee,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Thu 2 Feb 2012
Dr Pablo Mukherjee from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies reads an extract from Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Sketches by Boz,
Pablo Mukherjee,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Mon 6 Feb 2012
Charles Dickens' Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley reads the Preface to the novel Little Dorrit.
Keywords:
Charles Dickens,
Little Dorrit,
Lucinda Hawksley,
Celebrating Dickens
00:00, Mon 6 Feb 2012
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