News In 'CLiC' CLiC DickensEventsNewsPeople - CLiC Dickens projectPublications and resources - CLiC Dickens project Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed Liminality in David Copperfield DescriptionIn this guest post, Sophie Phelps explores 'liminal' Dickensian characters who are not quite children and not quite adults, as she shows with a case study of David Copperfield's "child-wife" Dora.Date:16/11/2018 College of Arts and Law confirmed as a focus for Fantastic Research DescriptionFour of the five films and podcasts launched this week by the University for its 'Fantastic Research' campaign feature academics from the College of Arts and Law.Date:16/11/2018 CLiC and the Cadbury Research Library: The start of a collaboration DescriptionRead more about the beginning of the collaboration between the CLiC and GLARE projects with the Cadbury Research Library. The collaboration was kicked off with a seminar for library staff, introducing the CLiC web app and the opportunities it can offer to students, staff and visitors.Date:28/09/2018 Finding the biting point: Desire and biting males in Dickens's 'The Pickwick Papers' and 'The Old Curiosity Shop' DescriptionIn this guest post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, Colette Ramuz explores textual patterns related to the mouth in a subsection of the CLiC corpus of Dickens's Novels.Date:31/08/2018 Distance-reading the feminine landscapes of The Awakening DescriptionIn this guest post on the CLiC Dickens Blog Heather Froehlich shows that digital humanities is not all about big data but can also provide useful insights on a smaller scale. She demonstrates this with a case study of Kate Chopin's novella The Awakening.Date:29/06/2018 Servants and doors in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde DescriptionIn this guest post on the CLiC Dickens Blog teacher Claire Stoneman shares her passion for Victorian literature with a case study of servants and agency in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.Date:08/06/2018 CLiC on tour in China DescriptionIn June Professor Michaela Mahlberg, who has been leading the CLiC project, will give a keynote at the 4th Corpus Linguistics in China Conference and then speak at Beihang University (Beijing) and Southwest University (Chongqing).Date:25/05/2018 Re-examining Eating and Drinking in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights DescriptionIn this post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, Maya Sfeir explores textual patterns of eating and drinking in Wuthering Heights.Date:18/05/2018 University of Birmingham's CLiC web app featured in Babel – The Language Magazine DescriptionRead more for details on the CLiC article in Babel and an announcement of a Digital Reading Competition.Date:11/05/2018 The fuzzy boundaries of language and literature DescriptionProfessor Michaela Mahlberg will be giving a plenary at CILC this week.Date:10/05/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 42 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next