Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The hint of incredulity there has been *noted*!… And yes, had a lovely cold dip—needed after all those warm seminar rooms! 010
Reposted by Ed GrimbleSophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A night to remember: we had a very festive, super tasty #Dickenssociety2026 conference dinner this evening at the absolutely fantastic(al) ARoS museum in Aarhus. 071
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Football woes in Aarhus dispelled by a cold plunge, and three fabulous papers this morning on Dickensian ‘enlightenment’; Bleak House’s Jo’s knowing ‘nothink’; and performance, dandyism, and deceit. Thanks to Nora Schalkers, Matthias Bauer, Céline Prest, and Anita Fernandez Young #DickensSociety2026 171
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Céline Prest gives a dynamic & deft consideration of ‘“I don’t know nothink”: Jo’s Shakespearean Heath of the Mind in Bleak House’. Jo is a tangle of negation and affirmation of thought; he wanders ‘in a labyrinth of signs and symbols’; he bears the grime & traces of the city. #DickensSociety2026 051
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 15/07/2026And our first panel was brought to a patient and moving close with Carolyn Vellenga Berman’s talk on ‘Trauma Thought and the Fragmented Self in ‘David Copperfield’’: what does it mean to suppress, encounter, avoid, and repair? How do we heal and ‘suture’ the fragmented self? #DickensSociety2026 094
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 15/07/2026After which @sophiajochem.bsky.social offered a thoughtful, thorough, and enormously thought-provoking discussion of abortion narratives in Dickens’ ‘Dombey and Son’. #DickensSociety2026 093
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 15/07/2026On our second day in Aarhus, Emma Linford throws us into the comic & contentious Victorian courtroom, exploring ‘“Breach of Promise” in Dickens: Legal and Psychological Dimensions in Victorian England’. Here truth, spectacle, private, and public blur. @dickenssociety.bsky.social #DickensSociety2026 052
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Ah! Yes! Get striding! I, however, will be hoping my sleeper train from Malmö through the night to Stockholm on Saturday has *nothing* to do with your Signal-Man material! I could do with a spectre-free journey! 000
Reposted by Ed GrimbleThe Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · 13/07/2026And we’re off! We had a wonderful pre-symposium reception with a beautiful spread of food, glorious food! #Dickenssociety2026 0133
Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Wonderful to be speaking in Aarhus today for the Dickens Society, on Dickens’ striding and scribbling, and his need for streets in which to be ‘rid of my spectres’. @dickenssociety.bsky.social #DickensSociety2026 170