Charles Dickens and Podcasts

Check out my piece about Barnaby Rudge and true crime podcasts over on CrimeReads!  In "How Charles Dickens Presaged the Rise of True Crime Podcasts," I write about Dickens's fifth novel and its connection to fact, fiction, and crime.  The way the novel blends these together is a precursor, I suggest, to the narrative styles honed by modern-day true … Continue reading Charles Dickens and Podcasts

Victorian Negatives

My book, Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century, was published by SUNY Press in July of 2019. Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the photographic negative played an instrumental role in their confluence. The negative is a technology … Continue reading Victorian Negatives

Images of Victorian Motherhood, Effaced and Exposed

This post was first published in the Journal of Victorian Culture Online here. I am very grateful to the Editors for permission to re-publish it here. Recently I’ve been contemplating motherhood as it is represented in Victorian hidden mother portraits and Victorian breastfeeding portraits, two fascinating photographic trends. A little over a year ago, I … Continue reading Images of Victorian Motherhood, Effaced and Exposed

Celebrity Circulation II: Dickens’s Moving/Images

This post was first published in the Journal of Victorian Culture Online here. I am very grateful to the Editors for permission to re-publish it here. Dickens was famously mobile throughout his life, walking miles each day, moving households repeatedly, and traveling often.  “If I could not walk far and fast,” he once wrote, “I … Continue reading Celebrity Circulation II: Dickens’s Moving/Images

Celebrity Circulation I: Dickens in Photographs

This post was first published in the Journal of Victorian Culture Online here. I am very grateful to the Editors for permission to re-publish it here. Charles Dickens, 1858 George Watkins Photograph As a photographic image, Charles Dickens circulated far and wide.  The man was photographed in excess of 120 times during his life [1], … Continue reading Celebrity Circulation I: Dickens in Photographs