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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Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality: Charles Dickens as a Reader
University of Vechta, Germany
7-9 June 2012
Dickens is known as a prodigious producer of texts and contexts; but to what extent Dickens was also a reader and processer of texts, treatises and literary works has scarcely been focused on. Densely packed with action and teeming with highly original characters his novels give the impression that they are the products of the 19th century and came into being like Fagin: in a process of abiogenesis, engendered out of muddy regions of Victorian urban life and burgeoning capitalism.
Contributions are invited on any aspect of Dickens’s wide reading and the way he re-used it in his texts.
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lennartz / Dieter Koch MA
norbert.lennartz@uni-vechta.de/ dieter.koch@uni-vechta.de
