ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#46 | November 12, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036
The Literary London Symposium is going be held at The Oxford and Cambridge Club in Londonduring the dates of December 15 – December 17, 2012.
The symposium will entertain papers written on subjects of literature, culture, arts, religion, capitalism, public education and of the Dickensian era through the Victoria Age. The Age of Dickens and the Age of Victoria, were, combined possibly the most dymanmic century ever to exist in the English speaking world.
You are invited and encouraged to make a presentation and to provide a paper on an aspect of the Dickens and Victoria Era. If you wish to present a paper you will be requested to submit a brief abstract for review by the Programme Committee. Papers presented may be subsequently reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in a special Dickens and the Victoria Era volume.
The meeting will begin on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 pm at the Oxford and Cambridge Club and end on Monday at 5:30 pm that afternoon. Lunch will be provided on Sunday and Monday along with tea/coffee breaks. The
conference will host a special ‘Dickens and Victoria Era in London’ tour of London on Sunday afternoon after lunch.
Dickens and Queen Victoria, together, form an Age in British Literature; for it was in 1837 that Victoria assumed the crown and in that same year Dickens’ published the final installment of the serial publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
For more information on the symposium, visit literarylondonsymposium.com.