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Almost as soon as Dickens died in 1870, writers and illustrators began to take liberties with his life and career.
Two sequels which show how the Victorian novelist’s stories can be adapted to reflect post-colonial narratives.
Dickens had some clever little narrative tricks, which become clear when his work is analysed as a single data set.
The focus on the ageing of women is by no means a modern phenomenon.
In children’s literature, mothers are rarely more than anonymous homemakers – unless they are wicked queens.
Written in the same house party as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Polidori’s creature was based on the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” Lord Byron.
New research is uncovering medieval legends about the undead in Britain.
Many viewers think that the recent adaptation of Vanity Fair plays fast and loose with Thackeray’s novel. But the writer was surprisingly modern.
Since the 1930s, Wuthering Heights has been used to claim the Brontë family had an incestuous secret.
Wuthering Heights is anything but a straightforward love story.
Sharp-eyed Victorian writers exploded the myth of tranquil village life.
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Associate Professor of Research, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Victorian Literature, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, Keele University
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Teaching fellow, British Studies, Harlaxton College
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
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Independent researcher, Trinity College Dublin
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Lecturer/Tutor, Coventry University
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate in Literature, University of Portsmouth
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PhD researcher, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
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Research Fellow, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
