This issue, guest edited by Bethan Carney and Catherine Waters, re-examines the notorious Trollopian critique of Charles Dickens as ‘Mr Popular Sentiment’, investigating both the complex affective power of his writing and the strong and divided emotional responses it has elicited. As well as essays exploring fiction, journalism, letters, memoirs, portraits and a range of other forms of material culture, it includes a Forum on ‘Bicentennial Sentiment: Dickens and Feeling Now’. The contributions to this issue invite us to reconsider how we feel about Dickens and about Dickensian feeling 200 years after his birth.
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Introduction: ‘Mr Popular Sentiment’: Dickens and Feeling |
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Bethan Carney |
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Materializing Mourning: Dickens, Funerals, and Epitaphs |
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Catherine Waters |
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Popular Sentiments and Public Executions |
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Gail Marshall |
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‘Wot larx!’: William Morris, Charles Dickens, and Fatherly Feelings |
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Wendy Parkins |
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‘Joyful convulsions’: Dickens’s Comings and Goings |
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Valerie Sanders |
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Feeling for the Future: The Crisis of Anticipation in Great Expectations |
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Daniel Tyler |
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‘A man of great feeling and sensibility’: The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and the Tears of a Clown |
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‘A veritable Dickens shrine’: Commemorating Charles Dickens at the Dickens House Museum |
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Catherine Malcolmson |
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| Thinking Feeling at the Dickens Bicentenary |
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Gail Marshall, Ian Higgins, Catherine Malcolmson, Kris Siefken, Holly Furneaux |
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| Stardust, Modernity, and the Dickensian Brand |
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Juliet John |
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| ‘Should I feel a moment with you?’: Queering Dickensian Feeling |
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Ben Winyard |
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| ‘Mr Popular Sentiment’ Conducts … Dickensian Journalism Then and Now |
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John Drew, Tony Williams |
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| Dickens and goodbye |
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John O. Jordan |
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