3,045 research outputs found
Dickens's Dream with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack introduces the painting Dickens’s Dream by RW Buss (1875), the characters it depicts and its intriguing relationship to other portraits of Dickens. The painting is on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London (dickensmuseum.com)
Dickens's Dream with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack introduces the painting Dickens’s Dream by RW Buss (1875), the characters it depicts and its intriguing relationship to other portraits of Dickens. The painting is on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London (dickensmuseum.com)
Dickens's reading desk with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video.
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack explores the importance of Dickens’s reading desk, on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London (dickensmuseum.com).* Dickens had it specially made for his hugely successful late career as a solo performer of his own works
A rose thrown in Dickens’s grave with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack explores the public impact of Dickens’s death. He focuses on the portrait of Dickens on his deathbed by John Everett Millais, and on a rose thrown into his grave by an anonymous member of the funeral crowd. Both objects are now part of the Charles Dickens Museum’s collection (dickensmuseum.com)
A rose thrown in Dickens’s grave with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack explores the public impact of Dickens’s death. He focuses on the portrait of Dickens on his deathbed by John Everett Millais, and on a rose thrown into his grave by an anonymous member of the funeral crowd. Both objects are now part of the Charles Dickens Museum’s collection (dickensmuseum.com)
Our Mutual Friend
No full textThis essay considers the conception of Our Mutual Friend, which marked the return of Dickens to the monthly serial form. It focuses on two central images, to show how the reader never feels comfortable, and is always in danger of heading in the wrong direction: the river connects prosperity and tragedy, life and death, baptism, resurrection, and healing; the dust heaps are emblematic of entropy, waste, and fragmentation, which are all negative aspects of the Victorian capitalist economy. Litvack also analyses Dickens’s innovations of character, in the tormented Bradley Headstone, the benevolent Jew Riah, and the sharp and imaginative Jenny Wren
Dickens's Dream with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video.
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack introduces the painting Dickens’s Dream by RW Buss (1875), the characters it depicts and its intriguing relationship to other portraits of Dickens. The painting is on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London (dickensmuseum.com). Permission to reproduce granted by Charles Dickens Museu
The Christmas Books
No full textThis essay traces Dickens’s fascination with, and enjoyment of, Christmas celebrations, and how he captured the spirit of the times in his first and most famous Christmas Book, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge’s trajectory is documented, along with the author’s sentimental presentation of Tiny Tim, and his animated description of Yuletide celebrations. The later Christmas Books extend some of the ideas found in the Carol, including harsh social criticism, supernatural agency, memory, the exaltation of family, suspicions and deceptions, love triangles, and self-sacrifice. Litvack argues that Dickens’s structuring principles were tied to his own childhood experience of loss and recovery
Leon Litvack interview with John Jordan of the Dickens Project re: Dickens photographic portrait exhibition
No full textLeon Litvack is interviewed by Prof. John Jordan of the Dickens project, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition on the Dickens photographic portraits at the University of Haifa, 15 May 201
A rose thrown in Dickens’s grave with Dr Leon Litvack. Charles Dickens Museum video.
No full textIn this short video, Dr Leon Litvack explores the public impact of Dickens’s death. He focuses on the portrait of Dickens on his deathbed by John Everett Millais, and on a rose thrown into his grave by an anonymous member of the funeral crowd. Both objects are now part of the Charles Dickens Museum’s collection (dickensmuseum.com). Permission to reproduce granted by Charles Dickens Museum
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