Echo as Writing in Bleak House by Charles Dickens: Lady Dedlock’s Testament

Charles Dickens' Consultation with Mr. Syme *The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster, page 417.

us believe) in any dialect in Scotland; in fact the tendency in all Scotch dialects is to pronounce it "jest." And as regards the alleged difference of opinion between Mr. Syme and Sir Henry Thompson, I heard Mr. Syme describe his interview with Dickens on the day it took place, and remember that he not only took a serious view of the condition of Dickens' foot, but also spoke of Sir Henry Thom...

Charles Dickens: a neglected diagnosis.

Evolution and epilepsy in "Bleak House".

In Charles Dickens's novels, nervous seizures trigger dreamy, clairvoyant episodes in which normally imperceptible connections and relations among events and characters come to light. During such episodes, which the neurologist John Hughlings Jackson would describe as "voluminous" states of consciousness, the boundaries of the self dissolve, and the mind becomes attuned to a range of possible i...

Mutual friends: Charles Dickens and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital

methodological shortcoming we now possess a compendium which provides useful insights into various anthropological concepts in the period between 1750 and 1850. Every scholar involved in the history of the life sciences to the beginning of the so-called scientific era will gratefully profit from the innumerable new historical insights in this book. In 1909 "the editor of a standard edition of D...

Victorian Representations and Transformations : Sacred Place in Charles Dickens ’ s