![]() What accounts for the Victorian novelist’s enduring popularity? We reached out to Dickens scholar Natalie McKnight, dean of the College of General Studies and a professor of humanities. Today, there are more than 400 film and television adaptations of his novels, with more on the way, including a new take on David Copperfield, with Dev Patel as the eponymous lead character. ![]() ![]() His books have never gone out of print and have been translated into 150 languages. His two speaking tours of America, in 1842 and in 18, drew standing-room-only crowds from Boston to New York, Richmond to St. Renowned for his ability to mix comedy and pathos and to move readers, Dickens was also a pioneering social reformer who fought throughout his life to improve the living and working conditions for the poor.Īt the time of his death, he was a literary superstar, celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. Micawber (David Copperfield), and Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger (Oliver Twist). ![]() ![]() During a career that spanned nearly 40 years, Dickens created some of the most indelible characters in fiction-Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol), Pip and Miss Havisham (Great Expectations), David Copperfield, Uriah Heep, and Mr. When English novelist Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870-150 years ago today-he was mourned as a national hero and buried in the Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey. ![]()
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