Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Maison des Sciences Humaines, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Fri, 16th November 2012 - Fri, 16th November 2012
International conference organised by the CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique, EA 1002) on ‘the grotesque’ in Charles Dickens and European fiction. Often perceived as the combination of the frightening and the ludicrous, the grotesque makes itself felt in 19th-Century novels, and more particularly in Charles Dickens’s fiction. Abstracts (300 to 500 words) together with a brief CV are welcome by 1 March 2012 to Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar (isabelle.farrar@univ-bpclermont.fr) and Max Véga-Ritter (max.vegaritter@gmail.com).
