Chris Louttit
@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Just got a fascinatingly obscure bit of #Dickens ephemera (even for me!) in the post: Mr Pickwick in Timberland, with 14 drawings by Elias Kanarek, which was published by the Polish State Forests for Private Circulation in Christmas 1937👇. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just got a fascinatingly obscure bit of #Dickens ephemera (even for me!) in the post: Mr Pickwick in Timberland, with 14 drawings by Elias Kanarek, which was published by the Polish State Forests for Private Circulation in Christmas 1937👇. 1/2
Looking forward to Dickens Day tomorrow, & to talking about Fred Barnard again! This time, I'll be giving a paper (with lots of images) on his Character Sketches from Dickens. A tiny teaser below of Barnard's sketch of Sydney Carton & its remediation in a children's edition by Russell Thorndyke.
October 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Looking forward to Dickens Day tomorrow, & to talking about Fred Barnard again! This time, I'll be giving a paper (with lots of images) on his Character Sketches from Dickens. A tiny teaser below of Barnard's sketch of Sydney Carton & its remediation in a children's edition by Russell Thorndyke.
Yes, that trailer is ... something. On a nerdier, punctuation-based note, I have a minor obsession about adaptation titles that change 'and' to '&', such as the 2005 P&P.
September 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Yes, that trailer is ... something. On a nerdier, punctuation-based note, I have a minor obsession about adaptation titles that change 'and' to '&', such as the 2005 P&P.
Quite fond of the retro, 70s-style poster for the new Wuthering Heights, with Jacob Elordi doing his best impression of Timothy Dalton.
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Quite fond of the retro, 70s-style poster for the new Wuthering Heights, with Jacob Elordi doing his best impression of Timothy Dalton.
Looking forward to this (I think!): this year's Scroogical is Christmas Karma, a Bollywood-inspired, updated take on the Carol directed by Gurinder Chadha. Kunal Nayyar is Scrooge, Eva Longoria, Billy Porter, Boy George the spirits, and Hugh Bonneville features as the Ghost of Jacob Marley.
August 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Looking forward to this (I think!): this year's Scroogical is Christmas Karma, a Bollywood-inspired, updated take on the Carol directed by Gurinder Chadha. Kunal Nayyar is Scrooge, Eva Longoria, Billy Porter, Boy George the spirits, and Hugh Bonneville features as the Ghost of Jacob Marley.
One final post for Dickens's death day: Rolf Brandt's striking graphite drawing of the terrifying moment in the tunnel from The Signalman (1866). The illustration, and Dickens's story, were included in an anthology of weird tales called 'Come Not Lucifer' in 1945. (V&A Prints & Drawings)
June 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
One final post for Dickens's death day: Rolf Brandt's striking graphite drawing of the terrifying moment in the tunnel from The Signalman (1866). The illustration, and Dickens's story, were included in an anthology of weird tales called 'Come Not Lucifer' in 1945. (V&A Prints & Drawings)
A bit of Dickensiana to mark Dickens's death #OTD in 1870 - Wedgewood's Charles Dickens Centenary Mug from 1970 (V&A Wedgewood Collection).
June 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A bit of Dickensiana to mark Dickens's death #OTD in 1870 - Wedgewood's Charles Dickens Centenary Mug from 1970 (V&A Wedgewood Collection).
Fun trip to Morris Mania at William Morris Gallery today - enjoyable insight into material traces of work of a Victorian giant in contemporary culture.
May 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Fun trip to Morris Mania at William Morris Gallery today - enjoyable insight into material traces of work of a Victorian giant in contemporary culture.
Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle (2010) in the blazing sun at the National Maritime Museum this morning.
April 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle (2010) in the blazing sun at the National Maritime Museum this morning.
A quick reminder that the CFP deadline for the upcoming @dickenssociety.bsky.social Dickens Death Day online event is coming up on 1st May. More info on the theme & how to submit proposals here:
dickenssociety.org/archives/4746
dickenssociety.org/archives/4746
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A quick reminder that the CFP deadline for the upcoming @dickenssociety.bsky.social Dickens Death Day online event is coming up on 1st May. More info on the theme & how to submit proposals here:
dickenssociety.org/archives/4746
dickenssociety.org/archives/4746
This morning's tiny academic pleasure: seeing a student waiting in the corridor who was reading Austen's Emma - which we don't currently teach.
April 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This morning's tiny academic pleasure: seeing a student waiting in the corridor who was reading Austen's Emma - which we don't currently teach.
Was excited about setting up a new seminar exercise on Oliver Twist illustrations (including Harry Furniss's Fagin 👇), but it didn't quite fly. Will try again, but wondering if one of those cases where I've spent so long thinking about something I've lost track of where the students are.
March 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Was excited about setting up a new seminar exercise on Oliver Twist illustrations (including Harry Furniss's Fagin 👇), but it didn't quite fly. Will try again, but wondering if one of those cases where I've spent so long thinking about something I've lost track of where the students are.
Enjoyed trip to Liberté: Ary Scheffer & French Romanticism at the Dordrechts Museum this weekend. Lots of Delacroix, Ingres and Vernet to admire up close, but my favourites were Scheffer's literary paintings, particularly The Giaour (1832).
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Enjoyed trip to Liberté: Ary Scheffer & French Romanticism at the Dordrechts Museum this weekend. Lots of Delacroix, Ingres and Vernet to admire up close, but my favourites were Scheffer's literary paintings, particularly The Giaour (1832).
Charles Green's illustration 'Scrooge's Knocker' for the 1912 Pears Centenary Edition of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Happy Christmas everyone!
December 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Charles Green's illustration 'Scrooge's Knocker' for the 1912 Pears Centenary Edition of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Happy Christmas everyone!
A short 🧵: I'm very excited to be chairing the Dickens Society session, 'Dickensian Cultures & Communities', at the MLA Convention in New Orleans on Friday 10 January 2025, 5:15pm-6:30pm! More info in the screen grabs and 👇. (1/3)
December 23, 2024 at 7:36 PM
A short 🧵: I'm very excited to be chairing the Dickens Society session, 'Dickensian Cultures & Communities', at the MLA Convention in New Orleans on Friday 10 January 2025, 5:15pm-6:30pm! More info in the screen grabs and 👇. (1/3)
Enjoyed the beautiful and challenging Thomas J. Price exhibition Matter of Place at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam yesterday - here's 'Reaching Out' (2020), currently standing outside the Rem Koolhaas-designed gallery.
December 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Enjoyed the beautiful and challenging Thomas J. Price exhibition Matter of Place at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam yesterday - here's 'Reaching Out' (2020), currently standing outside the Rem Koolhaas-designed gallery.
One for the publication day of Dickens's A Christmas Carol: 'The Last of the Spirits - A Scene from A Christmas Carol at the Adelphi Theatre', published in The Pictorial Times, 2 March 1844.
December 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
One for the publication day of Dickens's A Christmas Carol: 'The Last of the Spirits - A Scene from A Christmas Carol at the Adelphi Theatre', published in The Pictorial Times, 2 March 1844.
You might also like this other Rotterdam sculpture - Joep van Lieshout's Biopik in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum's Sculpture Garden.
December 14, 2024 at 6:07 PM
You might also like this other Rotterdam sculpture - Joep van Lieshout's Biopik in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum's Sculpture Garden.
One of my favourite bits of Dickens ephemera - a 1911 biscuit tin designed to look like a collected edition of Dickens's works from the V&A collections.
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM
One of my favourite bits of Dickens ephemera - a 1911 biscuit tin designed to look like a collected edition of Dickens's works from the V&A collections.
A quirky bit of Dickensian afterlife I just discovered: a type of Pacific Ocean char 👇 is called the Dolly Varden trout, named after the character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge - or more likely the brightly-patterned Dolly Varden dress.
November 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM
A quirky bit of Dickensian afterlife I just discovered: a type of Pacific Ocean char 👇 is called the Dolly Varden trout, named after the character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge - or more likely the brightly-patterned Dolly Varden dress.
For those of you unfamiliar with the real Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey:
November 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM
For those of you unfamiliar with the real Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey:
Realised this 1974 pulp Great Expectations reminded me a bit of Harry Furniss's violently sensational 'Pip's Struggle with a Convict' from the 1910 Charles Dickens Library Edition. (Scan from The Victorian Web)
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Realised this 1974 pulp Great Expectations reminded me a bit of Harry Furniss's violently sensational 'Pip's Struggle with a Convict' from the 1910 Charles Dickens Library Edition. (Scan from The Victorian Web)
I'm giving another paper tomorrow on Annie Edwardes, my favourite Victorian sensation novelist you've really never heard of. Cover 👇 from the yellowback edition of Archie Lovell (1866), depicting a dramatic moment between the heroine & the caddish Gerald Durant on a steamer to London.
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I'm giving another paper tomorrow on Annie Edwardes, my favourite Victorian sensation novelist you've really never heard of. Cover 👇 from the yellowback edition of Archie Lovell (1866), depicting a dramatic moment between the heroine & the caddish Gerald Durant on a steamer to London.
Age yourself with your first computer
Looks like I'm older than floppy disks
Looks like I'm older than floppy disks
November 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Age yourself with your first computer
Looks like I'm older than floppy disks
Looks like I'm older than floppy disks