Past Events

Dickens and the Visual Imagination

Conference

  • 9 to 10 July 2012
  • 9:00 – 6:00 pm
  • Public Study Room, Paul Mellon Centre

We are delighted to welcome all participants to the Dickens and the Visual Imagination conference, co-hosted by the University of Surrey and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, in association with Watts Gallery.

Dickens is renowned for the richness of his visual imagination, and his publications encouraged readers to interpret his words with and through their accompanying illustrations. Not only was Dickens deeply engaged with ideas of the visual in his writing, but his work also provoked responses from artists across multiple disciplines within the Victorian period and beyond. We have put together an exciting programme of papers which showcases the scope of current research into Dickens and the visual, taking in subjects as diverse as architecture, Victorian street art, and twenty-first-century graphic novels. In addition to our programme of papers, the first day of the conference, Monday 9 July, will conclude with a wine reception and viewing of the Dickens and the Artists exhibition at Watts Gallery.

Man sat in wooden chair against a busy room setting

Robert William Buss, Dickens' Dream', also known as 'A Souvenir of Dickens', circa 1875, watercolour

Digital image courtesy of Dickens Museum