Songcatcher - Conversation With Death - Dickens, Kelly, McMillon

A true mountain song. My mother and aunts were enthralled and talked about this type of line singing they heard when they were growing up. Not a typical subj...

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Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna.
#DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction
Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna. #DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction
“Oh for the pen of a #Dickens today, to make the bankers pause as their expensive leather shoes step over the homeless person huddled in the entranceway to their bank, and, yes, the tenured professors on their way to a well-endowed university” #liberalism open.substack.com/pub/timothyg...

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The future of liberalism

What should come after liberalism? A better liberalism.

History of the Present

#Quotes #Dickens #LiftingBurdens

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -Charles Dickens, novelist (7 Feb 1812-1870)

"They've such a passion for Liberty that they can't help taking liberties with her." - Martin Chuzzlewit on Americans (Dickens, sharp as ever. I appreciate the Statue Of Liberty wasn't constructed until after Dickens's death.) #BookWormSat #Dickens
A mid-Victorian illustration of the sudden appearance of the woman in 'The Black Veil', in the creepy mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published in 1836. #BookWormSat #Dickens #Victorian #gothic

Dickens scholars:

Does anyone have a copy of Sanders, Dickens and the Spirit of the Age (OUP 1999) to hand? If so, could you help me checking a quotation for me?

#Dickens #victorianliterature

#scribesandmakers 20 Jan 'When it comes to theatre do you prefer tragedy or comedy'

When it comes to visual arts I prefer entertainment.

My last trip to the theatre was to see the Ukulele orchestra of Great Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s

Before that, it was Stephen Fry in Bleak Expectations (a parody of Great Expectations).

https://www.westendtheatre.com/185915/news/show-photos/photo-stephen-fry-as-the-narrator-in-bleak-expectations/

#scifi #SlenderWolf #writingCommunity #Ukulele #StephenFry #Dickens