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Dickens Universe Mini Documentary

.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Dickens Universe Mini Documantary” shape=”square” color=”blue” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FJJgV87yGBSs|title:Dickens%20Universe%20Mini%20Documentary|target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens.

In 2022, the Dickens Universe will pair one of the best-known novels of Dickens, David Copperfield, with the most famous of all nineteenth-century African-American novels, Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted. Reflections on how personal histories of coming of age play out through and against the mysteries and brutalities of history; confrontations with the claims of familial and community loyalties, as these come to be fractured, exposed, and reconfigured: through these and other ways of reading, Universe participants will explore what happens when the novels of these two extraordinary novelists, reformers, orators, poets, and journalists are brought into conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Link to Dickens Project for more Info” color=”green” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdickens.ucsc.edu%2Funiverse%2Findex.html|title:Dickens%20Project%20at%20UCSC||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]