The Dickens Checklist

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• The Dickens Checklist
• Dominic Rainsford (bio)

The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online resources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available at dickenssociety.org, and is updated once a year.

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Secondary Sources: Bibliography and Reference

Palmer, Scott V. Charles Dickens on Screen. Cypress Hills Press, 2023.

Secondary Sources: Biography and Criticism

Boman, Charlotte. “In Search of ‘Some Bond of Union’: Picturing the Domestic Reading Circle in Victorian Photographs.” Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Beth Palmer et al., Peter Lang Publishing, 2022, pp. 163–188. Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, 11. [Section: “Pictures ‘tell a story’: Dickens and At-Home Photography”] Bowles, Hugo. “The Poetics of Mrs Gamp’s Conversation – Are They Dickens’s ‘Slips of the Pen’?” Bridging the Gap between Conversation Analysis and Poetics: Studies in Talk-in-Interaction and Literature Twenty-Five Years after Jefferson, edited by Raymond F. Person et al., Routledge, 2022, pp. 119–39. Capuano, Peter J. Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language. Cornell UP, 2023. Chen Houliang. “‘To Have No Work to Do [Is] Strange’: The Performance of Leisure in Little Dorrit.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 45, no. 4, Sept. 2023, pp. 313–28. Conary, Jennifer. “Dickensian Departures: Innovation and Originality in G. W. M. Reynolds’s Pickwick Abroad.” G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830–1870, edited by Jennifer Conary and Mary L. Shannon, Routledge, 2023, pp. 27–51. Dickens, Gerald. My Life on the Road with A Christmas Carol. Bumblebee Books, 2023. Dickens Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4, Dec. 2023. [Tara Moore, “Pickwick and Scrooge: Two Excellent Men of Business,” pp. 413–35; Joshua Dobbs, “‘It was a strange figure’: The Fairies of A Christmas Carol,” pp. 436–56; Sara Martín, “Jaggers the Plotter and the Pretty Child: Masculine Vulnerability to Beauty in Great Expectations,” pp. 457–75; William F. Long, “‘The wife who has plagued him … & … is rather lunatical’: A Contemporary Private Reference to the Dickens Scandal,” pp. 476–87; Natalie J. McKnight, review of Charles Dickens, Death and Christmas, by Robert L. Patten, pp. 488–90; Tamsin Evernden, review of The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention, by Garrett Stewart, pp. 490–93; Christian Lehmann, review of Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority, by Peter J. Katz, pp. 493–96; Renata Goroshkova, review of The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880, by Anna A. Berman, pp. 497–99; Adam Abraham, review of Screening Charles Dickens: A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations, by William Farina, pp. 500–02; Claire Wood, “The Fifty-Fourth Annual Dickens Society Meeting,” pp. 505–07; Lydia Craig, “Dickens Society Treasurer’s Report for the Fiscal Year 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023,” pp. 508–09; Dominic Rainsford, “The Dickens Checklist,” pp. 515–18.] The Dickensian, vol. 119, part 2, no. 520, Autumn 2023. [Emily Bell, “From the Editor,” pp. 139–40; Shimpei Ichinose, “Hidden Anti-Confederacy Views in Great Expectations: Dickens and the American Civil War,” pp. 142–56; Fernando Castanedo, “Anxious Waiting in Great Expectations and A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” pp. 157–61; Jerome Meckier, “Pip Confides in Biddy: Confiders, Confidants and Confidentiality in Great Expectations,” pp. 162–66; William F. Long, “‘It is, perhaps, of no importance, but it may as well be correctly stated’: the Wits’ Joke Revisited,” pp. 167–81; Robert C. Hanna, “Biographical Implications of Theatrical Popular Entertainment in Dickens’s Original Publications, 1833–36,” pp. 182–93; Atif Abdullah, “Rodney Bennett’s Dombey and Son (1983): Economic Capital, Transactional Relationships, and Women’s (Dis)Positions,” pp. 194–215; Don Richard Cox, Malcolm Andrews, and Brian Lake, Letters to the Editor, pp. 216–18; Lydia Craig, review of The Turning Point: 1851 – A year that Changed Charles Dickens and the World, by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, pp. 219–22; Helen Kingstone, review of Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel, by Camilla Cassidy, pp. 222–25; Jeremy Parrott, review of...