Centre for Victorian Studies’ Members on the Radio

In the past year, several members of the Centre for Victorian Studies have been on BBC radio, sharing their expertise on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

In February, Professor Ruth Livesey joined Cerys Matthews to talk about George Eliot, drawing from her current AHRC-funded research project, “Provincialism: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Middleness in Nineteenth-Century Britain.”

Professor Juliet John Co-Curates New Dickens Museum Exhibition

Professor Juliet John has co-curated a new exhibition, “Global Dickens,” at the Dickens Museum in London. The exhibition challenges the view of Dickens as a quintessentially British writer, by showing how he wrote for, and about the world. The exhibition uses unique artefacts from the Museum’s collections -  including Dickens’s leather travelling bag; a Manga edition of A Christmas Carol; and a spectacular copy of David Copperfield that went to the Antarctic on the 1910 Scott expedition - to illustrate Dickens’s travels, and his impact on the lives of people all over the planet.