Join us for three panels on 'Dickens: Heirs and Heirlooms' at the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 2021 conference, sponsored by the Dickens Society. The conference is taking place entirely online. Full details (all times in CEST):
Convenors
- Emily Bell (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
- Georges Letissier (Université de Nantes, France)
- Céline Prest (France)
Panel 1: Tuesday 31 August, 10:30-12:30: Patterns of Inheritance in and after Dickens
- Matthias Bauer (University of Tübingen, Germany) Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen, Germany), Ambiguous Heirlooms: Freedom and/of the Past in Dickens
- Katie Bell (University of Leicester, United Kingdom), The Haunting of Bleak House
- Carra Glatt (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), These Three, Met Again: The Repression and Return of Edwin Drood
- Daniel Jenkin-Smith (Aston University, United Kingdom), A World of Wills and Representations: Dickens’s Ambivalent Bureaucratic Idealism
Panel 2: Tuesday 31 August, 14:45-16:45: Dickens’s Generations
- Nathalie Vanfasse (Aix-Marseille University, France), The Nature of Business Legacy in Dombey and Son
- Eike Kronshage (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany), “[N]o trace to leave behind.” Vertical and Horizontal Financial Transmission as Dickens’s Critique of Industrial Capitalism in Dombey and Son
- Lillian Nayder (Bates College, United States), Charles Dickens and the Second Son
- Emily Bell (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), “[T]he curse of limpness”: The Dickens Family and the Author's Legacy
Panel 3: Tuesday 31 August, 17:00-19:00: Dickens Translated: Languages, Contexts, Forms
- Claire Woods (Ulster University, United Kingdom), Vestiges of French influence or Dickens et l’héritage français
- Shantanu Majee (Techno India University, India), Dickens in Bengal
- Renata Goroshkova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia), “Struggle between two different worlds. All against a snowy background”: Christmas after Dickens in Russian Literature of the 20th Century
- Hugo Bowles (University of Foggia, Italy) and Claire Wood (University of Leicester, United Kingdom), Preserving and Expanding Dickens’s Shorthand Legacy – The Dickens Code Project
- Emma Curry and Aine McNicholas (V&A, United Kingdom), Deciphering Dickens: Digital Challenges and Opportunities
How to Register
Register here: http://www.esse2020lyon.fr/en/pages/esse-2021-registration-info. Please note that registration is entirely free if your university is a member of their national association (as many universities are). Click the appropriate country in the full ESSE associations list at the bottom of this page to check: https://essenglish.org/.
Last modified 31 July 2021