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Celebrating Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Online exhibition
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On 7 February 1812, Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England. As a consequence, world-wide celebrations have taken place in 2012, the bicentennial year of his birth. And why not celebrate the birth of the creator of some 989 named characters such as the Artful Dodger, Mr Micawber, Little Nell, Wackford Squeers, Uriah Heep, Peggotty, Fagin, William Dorrit, Scrooge, Pecksniff, Paul Dombey, Sally Brass, and Bucket? These unforgettable characters (and others) appear in classic works such as Sketches by Boz (1836), Pickwick Papers (1836-37), Oliver Twist (1837-39), David Copperfield (1850), Great Expectations (1860-61), Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870).
Special Collections, University of Otago Library, is fortunate to hold first and second editions of works by Dickens, as well as scarce published parts and periodicals that offer first time appearances. And many of these works contain memorable images executed by artists who collaborated closely with him. They include George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (‘Phiz’), John Leech, Frank and Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes. Indeed, who can forget Cruikshank’s depiction of Oliver holding out his cup and asking for more gruel?
Dickens was a man of his times; the Victorian times. With his publishers, he capitalized on technologies and innovative marketing strategies by supplying instalments of his works to a growing reading public. He was inundated with letters from readers, many begging him not to kill off Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop. And on the eve of her coronation, Victoria was so taken with Oliver Twist that she recommended it to her minister, Lord Melbourne. In her words, the work was 'excessively interesting'. Dickens also took his works on the road, performing numerous public readings in Britain and overseas.
His writing career spanned 34 years, during which he wrote 15 major novels, his famed Christmas books, travel books, plays, numerous newspaper and periodical contributions, and many miscellaneous pieces. To contextualise his life and works a select number of themes that figure so strongly during the reign of Queen Victoria will be on display. They include the City of London; the poor and dispossessed; Punch; the Great Exhibition; and the Crimean War. Dickens and his enduring legacy will also feature.
21 September - 13 December 2012
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Various collectors
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Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary Influence
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The works of Charles Dickens were translated into Russian from the 1840s onwards. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) first encountered Dickens in Russian and French translations, and managed to read the novels while in exile in Siberia (1850-54). Dostoevsky – who called himself ‘Mr Micawber’ – may have met Dickens while visiting London in 1862. He certainly admired the English writer for his realism, characterisation and psychological insights, and comparisons have been made, for example, the similarities of character traits between John Harmon in <em>Our Mutual Friend</em> and Prince Myshkin in <em>The Idiot</em>. While there is much of Dickens in Dostoevsky, the influence is perhaps more pervasive: ‘the mark of Dickens is everywhere in Russian fiction’ (Lary).
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N. M. Lary
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London, Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Date
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1973
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Central PG3328 Z6 LA43
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