text by Magdalena Pypeć Old Harmon in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend amassed an enormous fortune as a dust contractor, as one of the characters explains: “On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery-dust, rough […]
text by Magdalena Pypeć One of the pressing social issues that deeply concerned Charles Dickens was the need for universal education and comprehensive sanitary reform, both of which he deemed essential to improving the lives of the poor. In Dickens’s view, these two causes were inextricably linked. This connection is vividly illustrated in A Christmas […]
text by Magdalena Pypeć Published at the outset of heightened British imperial activity, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (hereafter referred to as Edwin Drood) contains more colonial references than any other Dickens’s work. All these references situate the “ancient English Cathedral town” from the novel within the larger diverse imperial context and the anxieties that […]
