The 41st Annual Dickens Universe Conference

The Dickens Universe will pair DAVID COPPERFIELD with the most famous 19th-century African American novels, Frances E. W. Harper’s IOLA LEROY OR, SHADOWS UPLIFTED. Reflections on how personal histories play out through and against the mysteries and brutalities of history; confrontations with the claims of familial and community loyalties, as these come to be fractured, exposed, and reconfigured.