Alumni College 2014: Marc Conner's "Charles Dickens and the 19th-century British Novel"

[@patriciahartner7336]

You organized my understanding of Dickens like a centrifuge. Thank you.

[@bellringer929]

Thank you so much. One of the best lectures on Dickens... Loved the clarity and simplicity that enlivened the entire lecture... Badly want more of Marc's lectures...

[@martm216]

Listened to only a minute or two so far, but I can tell that this guy is good.

[@corpuscallosum4677]

Great and clear review and presentation of such a sophisticated writer as Dickens. His contrasts, like his opening lines in Tales of Two Cities, the two Claras as maternal forces in David Copperfield, the cross of gifts in Christmas Carols, sometimes threw readers into a tailspin. But to understand a disciplined heart, a love in reality, we have to put ourselves in the turbulent epochs of that time/space!!

[@datinchristievengadesan6636]

19 th century England the novel was the great art form. Dickens defined his age, shaped his own time and place. Romanticism: reactions to what came before: emotion above reason , overflow of powerful feeling. Primacy of nature, Dickens Victorian age: attitude, repressive, patriarchal, Industrial expansion, Loss of connection with the land Dickens: is on both sides, Age of empire Issues of labour Rise of the working class Sympathetic to the spiritual life Issues of gender Roles of women 18 century novel is a secular form Mass distribution, Realistic novel: 19 century novel: examines the body of society, Plot of vocation: marriage, Coming of age Novel of growth 5 moments in CD Father is imprisoned Works in a blacking factory at age 12. Shattering experience Idyllic love, swallowed up sense of critic, Loss of childhood CD: A man of enormous energy Highly harsh realities of the world. Hard Times: unities of a novel Echo-chamber of his childhood, Abuse of education, Industrial revolution Thank you for the presentation.

[@fayazmulla5283]

This is better than the lecture itself.

[@BooksWeCanRead]

Ah what a great teacher! Wonderful resource, thanks for sharing!

[@preggioperson]

Energy and passion are infectious.

[@lisamuir4261]

Loved this lecture. Also found more writers which I do not recall hearing of. The views were enlightening as well.

[@rifan_j]

Absolutely fantastic lecture!!! Totally indebted to this wonderful, wonderful presentation. Wish I could get some more by being in his class. My first introduction to Dickens was "Great Expectations" when I was in my mid-twenties, and I continue to read his works ever since. Finished "David Copperfield" just last month and currently perusing "Bleak House", and again I was amazed by the power of Dickens's storytelling and things about his greatness we have already known. Thank you, thank you very much.

[@Larkinchance]

Dicken's enduring popularity was due to universal availability through the penny press and the fact that at the time he wrote as a contemporary addressing social ills.

[@patriciahartner7336]

I understand now that the loss of childhood which tainted his stories is the source of my strong connection.

[@sandralechner2974]

Thank you so much for sharing the lecture!

[@sugalimuralisreenivanaik9064]

Superb delivered sir,💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏👌👌🍓🍓🍓

[@Beesmakelifegoo]

Wonderful!

[@joanamor2224]

Very informative lecture. Thank you Sir.

[@julyandavis8528]

Fab. Clear and memorable! Thanks.

[@sheilapowell5599]

A good analysis.I would like educators to remember Frances Trollope and indeed Trollope himself who focussed on the intellectual and political thinking and mores of the times.Frances Trollope's travels around America in Victorian times highlight how the English had an unparalleled grasp of of their times,which Americans seemed hostile to. READ HER!

[@christait2549]

Very interesting!

[@jpmaya7284]

Excellent - so informative thank you for sharing

[@johnmulvey5121]

Very interesting and clear!Thanks

[@Avefenix1956]

Were can i watch the other Dickens lectures by Marc Conner?

[@athenassigil5820]

The prof left out Sir Walter Scott! Whether we like his style now or not, the author was huge in that era and well into the remainder of the 19th century. Singlehandedly, he revised and led the Victorian love of medieval romance. William Morris had read all 26 of Scotts novels by the age of 8! He was also very influential on not just British writers, but the French, Americans and so many other Euro-centric cultures in that period.

[@athenassigil5820]

I forgot to add, Scott was also a great advocate and admirer of Austen, too.

[@2ndavenuesw481]

To actually discuss Romanticism in full context would be too reactionary. That is to say, "culture" "today" is subject to a kind of Leftist orthodoxy. This is why they so often can't stand to play opera straight. To actually discuss the idealization of the past as seen in Sir Walter Scott, and to recognize its importance and influence, would be to concede too much for these people who make a mantra of the term "Enlightenment" as though it were the beginning of everything. A comprehensive view of Romanticism would require consideration of some premises opposed to Whig history and its offspring critical theory.

[@2ndavenuesw481]

So for these people, Romanticism must be treated as a prelude to comic books because to actually discuss it might somehow be "Nazi."

[@abderrahimmachkouri6347]

which page and edition were you reading from David coperfield?

[@electraruby4078]

Brilliant!

[@bellringer929]

Thank you sir. Love your not so humble views☺️ Dickens writing style is predictable, isn't?

[@mieliav]

oooh... fighting words about Trollope at the end!

[@TrustMe55]

Terrible background noise when during the question and answer section like someone’s twisting and moving around in their chairs

[@kevinzalizniak5565]

David Copperfield is wonderful of course, but very sad he virtually shuts out Bleak House - possibly the greatest novel ever written.

[@NadeemKhan-ce5tk]

Sir i need notes ...charles dickens contribution in 19 century novels

[@mustertherohirrim7315]

Dickens RULES. Just take your time.

[@endrimaloku6960]

Where can we see more of prof. Marc's lectures about Dickens?

[@preggioperson]

More Dickens. More David Copperfield. That would be great.

[@rajivgokhale3629]

Practical subordinate warm

[@abderrahimmachkouri6347]

you are an erudite lecturer.

[@rajivgokhale3629]

Conventional Victorian mode

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

My paper, "Evidence That ‘A Christmas Carol’ Was Originally Written by Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, Rather Than by Charles Dickens," is downloadable at the following link. It can also be found by searching on the title on Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf