Dickens in Motion: Still Moving after Two Hundred Years

Authors

  • Adam Abraham University of York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.61739

Keywords:

DICKENS, MOTION, TRANSPORT, PICKWICK

Abstract

The following is a meditation on the career of English novelist Charles Dickens (1812–1870), on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. Taking its cue from Jonathan H. Grossman’s Charles Dickens’s Networks, this piece reflects on the themes of Dickens and motion (the role of public transport in his novels), Dickens and emotion (his determination to move his readers), and Dickens in motion (his personal restlessness).

Author Biography

Adam Abraham, University of York

Adam Abraham is an MA student in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York. He is the author of When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA (Wesleyan University Press, 2012).

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Published

2023-06-22

Issue

No. 3: August 2012

Section

NON-FICTION

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