Dr Gareth Cordery
Adjunct Fellow
Qualifications
M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin)
Contact Details
gareth.cordery@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
English Programme
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
Research
Gareth Cordery's current research interests are in two separate but related areas: Dickens and Harry Furniss. He is a trustee of the Dickens Society whose journal Dickens Quarterly has published several of his articles. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Dickens. An abiding interest in the illustrations to Dickens's novels led him to Harry Furniss (1854-1925), a political caricaturist and early filmmaker as well as a book illustrator. His book on Dickens and Furniss appeared in 2005, his definitive bibliography of Furniss is forthcoming and he is working on a biography of this much-neglected artist.
Recent Publications
An Edwardian's View of Dickens and His Illustrators: Harry Furniss's ‘A Sketch of Boz.' University of North Carolina: ELT Press, 2005. 116 pp.
“A Special Relationship: Stiggins in England and America (Parts I and II).” Dickens Quarterly 22 (September and December 2005).
“Harry Furniss and the ‘Boom in Boz' (Parts I and II).” Dickens Quarterly 21 (June and September 2004).
“Drink in David Copperfield.” In William Baker and Ira Nadel (eds.). Redefining the Moderns: Essays on Literature and Society. Madison and London: Farleigh Dickinson UP and Associated UP (2004): 59-74.
“Public Houses: Spatial Instabilities in Sketches by Boz and Oliver Twist (Parts I and II).” Dickens Quarterly 20 (March and June 2003).
“Harry Furniss: A Bibliography.” Imaginative Book Illustration Society Newsletter 20 (Spring 2001): 28-48.
"Foucault, Dickens and David Copperfield." Victorian Literature and Culture 26 (1998): 71-85.
“Furniss, Dickens and Illustration (Parts I and II).” Dickens Quarterly 13 (March and June 1996).