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“Curiously brought together” or “travelling surely hither”? Journeying from Bleak House to Little Dorrit
A blog post from Dr Charlotte Mathieson, Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study:
I’m currently revising a chapter on European travel in Dickens’s Little Dorrit, and have been pondering for the last couple of days the way in which, as in Bleak House, Dickens’s narrator suggests to us something of a framework for reading the patterns of mobility and interconnections in the novel...
The Novelist-Academic-Poet on Campus
The latest blog entry from Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
Universities are chock-full of novelists and poets. Indeed, the cultural life of nations would be mightily impoverished without their presence. There have of course been many studies of novelists and poets who are also academics. Perhaps it is just that I have not noticed the phenomenon before, but it does seem as though they are expanding in number now as never before.