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.
Articles
Introduction: ‘Mr Popular Sentiment’: Dickens and Feeling
Bethan Carney
2012-04-30 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
Materializing Mourning: Dickens, Funerals, and Epitaphs
Catherine Waters
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
Popular Sentiments and Public Executions
Gail Marshall
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
‘Wot larx!’: William Morris, Charles Dickens, and Fatherly Feelings
Wendy Parkins
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
‘Joyful convulsions’: Dickens’s Comings and Goings
Valerie Sanders
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
Feeling for the Future: The Crisis of Anticipation in Great Expectations
Daniel Tyler
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
‘A man of great feeling and sensibility’: The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and the Tears of a Clown
Jonathan Buckmaster
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
‘A veritable Dickens shrine’: Commemorating Charles Dickens at the Dickens House Museum
Catherine Malcolmson
2011-09-23 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
Forum
Thinking Feeling at the Dickens Bicentenary
Gail Marshall, Ian Higgins, Catherine Malcolmson, Kris Siefken and Holly Furneaux
2012-04-27 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
Stardust, Modernity, and the Dickensian Brand
Juliet John
2012-04-27 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling
‘Should I feel a moment with you?’: Queering Dickensian Feeling
Ben Winyard
2012-04-24 Issue 14 • 2011 • Dickens and Feeling