References (at the top left of each entry) to the earlier volumes of the British Academy-Pilgrim ... more References (at the top left of each entry) to the earlier volumes of the British Academy-Pilgrim edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens are by volume, page and line, every printed line below the running head being counted. Where appropriate, note and column number are included. Dickens letters continue to come in; we are particularly pleased to publish in Supplement X two new letters, the finders of which publish an article in this issue about their recipient, Servaas de Bruin The editors gratefully acknowledge the help of the following individuals and institutions:
Dickens’s reading knowledge was vast, and serves as a testament to how effectively he digested an... more Dickens’s reading knowledge was vast, and serves as a testament to how effectively he digested and recalled a range of material that could be used in his various forms of output, including fiction, journalism, letters, and speeches. His primary influences stemmed from childhood reading: nursery stories, fairy tales, and the Bible. To these he added more standardized reading acquired at school, including the classics, and, from the age of 18, a systematic programme of reading, including the works of Shakespeare, that was consciously undertaken in order to make the transition to a professional writing career. Other major influences include the eighteenth-century poets, novelists, and essayists, the Romantic poets, and early nineteenth-century novelists and poets. He was intimately familiar with the literary trends of his own day in poetry and fiction, as well as in such diverse fields as history, geography, travel, science, and industry.
In the archives of the Charles Dickens Museum there exists a cabinet photograph 1 of the author, ... more In the archives of the Charles Dickens Museum there exists a cabinet photograph 1 of the author, surrounded by his friends, family, and three dogs, on the lawn at Gad's Hill. The description on the back of this image, dated 1864, identifies the photographer as Robert Hindry Mason (1824-85); however, a careful scrutiny of the evidence tells a different story. The image has been published before: in B.W. Matz's Memorial edition of John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, and in J.W.T. Ley's The Dickens Circle. 2 While it is relatively unfamiliar today, when it was first issued it had a popular appeal. It appeared in November 1864, as the first image of the inaugural issue of Naudin's Portfolio, a series of six small assortments of photographs (issued monthly, until April 1865), comprising well known public buildings, such as Strathfeld Saye House (home of the Duke of Wellington) and Broadlands (country seat of Viscount Palmerston), together with an image of the Oxford Boat Race Crew, and cartes de visite 3 of such famous figures as Anthony Trollope, Marcus Stone, and Mrs. Henry Wood. The cabinet photographs, each of which occupied an entire page, were accompanied, on the opposite leaf, by a description, written by Hamilton Hume, the series editor. The text for the Dickens image, entitled 'GADSHILL', ran as follows: GADSHILL, in the parish of Higham, Kent, on the old high road between
When, seven years ago, Marieke de Goede (2010) first drew attention to the historical and concept... more When, seven years ago, Marieke de Goede (2010) first drew attention to the historical and conceptual entanglements between the logics of finance and security, and to the artificialyet meaningful-divide between the two in modernity, this was not merely a call for a new research programme. Attempting to hold together these two objects of disciplinary enquiry, and becoming aware of the tendency to collapse one into the other inherent to International Political Economy (IPE) or International Relations (IR) analytics, was also a much needed exercise of disciplinary critique, consistent with interrogating divides between the economic and the social, the financial and cultural. In other words, more than just a new object or field of empirical and theoretical research, the finance-security nexus was proposed as a device for critically and genealogically thinking through distinct disciplinary approaches to economy, futurity and populations. To that end, this special issue proposes to take stock of the multiple ways in which the finance-security nexus has been deployed as such a device of (post)disciplinary critique. Three substantive articles in the first part of the issue engage with key analytical problems and deadlocks that have marked conceptualisations of finance-security relations in the last seven years. These include ongoing questions of how to theorise the 'dual meaning' of securitisation (de Goede, 2010), as well as different forms of the relationship between securitisation and financialisation, which "share a claim to universal applicability in (all) other social fields" (Boy et al., 2011: 115). In his contribution, Anthony Amicelle recognises the danger of becoming trapped in a trade-off between securitisation and financialisation, wherein a focus on one comes at the expense of the other. To avoid such a zero-sum game and the unilateral colonisation of one field by the other, he undertakes a genealogy of finance-security relations through the lens of public problems. Tracing the process by which 'dirty money'
References (at the top left of each entry) to the earlier volumes of the British Academy-Pilgrim ... more References (at the top left of each entry) to the earlier volumes of the British Academy-Pilgrim edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens are by volume, page and line, every printed line below the running head being counted. Where appropriate, note and column number are included. Dickens letters continue to come in; we are particularly pleased to publish in Supplement X two new letters, the finders of which publish an article in this issue about their recipient, Servaas de Bruin The editors gratefully acknowledge the help of the following individuals and institutions:
Dickens’s reading knowledge was vast, and serves as a testament to how effectively he digested an... more Dickens’s reading knowledge was vast, and serves as a testament to how effectively he digested and recalled a range of material that could be used in his various forms of output, including fiction, journalism, letters, and speeches. His primary influences stemmed from childhood reading: nursery stories, fairy tales, and the Bible. To these he added more standardized reading acquired at school, including the classics, and, from the age of 18, a systematic programme of reading, including the works of Shakespeare, that was consciously undertaken in order to make the transition to a professional writing career. Other major influences include the eighteenth-century poets, novelists, and essayists, the Romantic poets, and early nineteenth-century novelists and poets. He was intimately familiar with the literary trends of his own day in poetry and fiction, as well as in such diverse fields as history, geography, travel, science, and industry.
In the archives of the Charles Dickens Museum there exists a cabinet photograph 1 of the author, ... more In the archives of the Charles Dickens Museum there exists a cabinet photograph 1 of the author, surrounded by his friends, family, and three dogs, on the lawn at Gad's Hill. The description on the back of this image, dated 1864, identifies the photographer as Robert Hindry Mason (1824-85); however, a careful scrutiny of the evidence tells a different story. The image has been published before: in B.W. Matz's Memorial edition of John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, and in J.W.T. Ley's The Dickens Circle. 2 While it is relatively unfamiliar today, when it was first issued it had a popular appeal. It appeared in November 1864, as the first image of the inaugural issue of Naudin's Portfolio, a series of six small assortments of photographs (issued monthly, until April 1865), comprising well known public buildings, such as Strathfeld Saye House (home of the Duke of Wellington) and Broadlands (country seat of Viscount Palmerston), together with an image of the Oxford Boat Race Crew, and cartes de visite 3 of such famous figures as Anthony Trollope, Marcus Stone, and Mrs. Henry Wood. The cabinet photographs, each of which occupied an entire page, were accompanied, on the opposite leaf, by a description, written by Hamilton Hume, the series editor. The text for the Dickens image, entitled 'GADSHILL', ran as follows: GADSHILL, in the parish of Higham, Kent, on the old high road between
When, seven years ago, Marieke de Goede (2010) first drew attention to the historical and concept... more When, seven years ago, Marieke de Goede (2010) first drew attention to the historical and conceptual entanglements between the logics of finance and security, and to the artificialyet meaningful-divide between the two in modernity, this was not merely a call for a new research programme. Attempting to hold together these two objects of disciplinary enquiry, and becoming aware of the tendency to collapse one into the other inherent to International Political Economy (IPE) or International Relations (IR) analytics, was also a much needed exercise of disciplinary critique, consistent with interrogating divides between the economic and the social, the financial and cultural. In other words, more than just a new object or field of empirical and theoretical research, the finance-security nexus was proposed as a device for critically and genealogically thinking through distinct disciplinary approaches to economy, futurity and populations. To that end, this special issue proposes to take stock of the multiple ways in which the finance-security nexus has been deployed as such a device of (post)disciplinary critique. Three substantive articles in the first part of the issue engage with key analytical problems and deadlocks that have marked conceptualisations of finance-security relations in the last seven years. These include ongoing questions of how to theorise the 'dual meaning' of securitisation (de Goede, 2010), as well as different forms of the relationship between securitisation and financialisation, which "share a claim to universal applicability in (all) other social fields" (Boy et al., 2011: 115). In his contribution, Anthony Amicelle recognises the danger of becoming trapped in a trade-off between securitisation and financialisation, wherein a focus on one comes at the expense of the other. To avoid such a zero-sum game and the unilateral colonisation of one field by the other, he undertakes a genealogy of finance-security relations through the lens of public problems. Tracing the process by which 'dirty money'
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