Dickens: The Last Decade
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- In the last ten years of his life Charles Dickens related to his adoring public in a number of different ways; as novelist, as journalist, as public speaker, and in public readings of his own work.
This lecture explores the contrast between the public image and the private life, considering what his writings reveal to us about his deepest preoccupations, both as man and as artist, during this period.
A lecture by Michael Slater
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Excellent lecture! Big Dickens fan here and I must say I was late in jumping on board The Dickens Express and now that I have done so my appreciation of his genius knows no limit. Thanks again to Gresham College for such excellent content!
Thank you Professor Slater. Professor your voice is so soothing and pleasant that I listened to your presentation five times this morning when I discovered your video. I enjoyed immensely your presentation on Mr. Dickens who is my favorite English author. Mr. Dickens’ approach on reading to his readers the last decade of his life inspires me so very much. I hope to do the same one day instead of publishing my manuscript.
What a wonderfully engaging lecture. I thoroughly enjoyed it. More, please.
I wish lecturers wouldn't read their presentations. They should be able to talk from notes...interesting nevertheless.
His work in tje theatre was amazing. Finally Charles turned in true his desire of being actor
Thank you for these lectures I've been binging them throughout the holidays.
Michal Slater is a brilliant Dickens biographer. I'm reading his "Dickens and Women" just now which gives a sensitive and sympathetic account of the unfairly maligned Catherine Dickens.
Beautifully read - thank you.
Excellent Talk
Charles Dickens has a big family tree 🌴 He’s a Christmas 🎄 gift of books 📚 ❤
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
December 1843.
Nice!
Dickens was seeking to maximize his income! Touring lectures in America got him huge income. While writing a novel would not bring that!
5:00 never to "possess"?
A man doesn't possess a woman.
Horrible way of thinking.
I know women used to be regarded as mere possessions, but I find it weird to hear this man use such a phrase
Imagine listening to a lecture on Dickens and being unfamiliar with the concept of figurative speech.
When reading Dickins, it is probably advisable to retire any notion of 'woke' that you may possess.
@@barrycrump6189 As opposed to asleep?
We see the frightful consequences of losing that attitude all around us.
@@kreek22
It wasn't figurative then
'We should always remember that letters are ephemeral' - not necessarily, the letters of Cicero, Pliny and St Paul are still read 2,000 years after they were written.