Christopher Pittard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Pittard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittard |
| SIGNATURE | PITTARD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0970-9107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Literary Illusions
Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century’s most popular modes of performance: conjuring. It explores the ways in which Victorian literature frequently deployed the figure of the magician to explore performance magic as a metaphor for writing itself, and the ways in which conjurors themselves were authors (of highly fictionalised biographies), while authors explored the narrative oppor…
Literary Illusions
Explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century’s most popular modes of performance: conjuring Reads Victorian novels alongside an under-studied field of conjuring and performance manuals and biographies Explores and theorises an underexplored aspect of Dickens’ career (as an amateur magician), connecting this to his later public readings Combines analysis of canonical texts with less frequently criticised Vic…
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story ‘The Final Problem’, but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes . While the outcry that supposedly followed Holmes' death was mostly apocryphal (the claim that readers wore black armbands in mourning has been frequently cited but never actually proved), by 1893 there was a substantial…
Wilkie Collins in Context
Black Peter
I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ’95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint...
Return of Sherlock Holmes
Andrew Glazzard, The Case of Sherlock Holmes
Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Before the 2000s the humanities and social sciences paid little attention to the participation of non-human animals in human cultures.The entrenched idea of the human as a unique kind of being nourished a presumption that Homo sapiens should be the proper object of study for these fields, to the exclusion of lives beyond the human.Against this background, various academic disciplines can now be found in the process of executing an 'animal turn', …
Animal Voices
While previous readings of Catherine Louisa Pirkis’ series The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) have focused on Brooke’s status as New Woman detective, this article considers the series in the context of Pirkis’ own engagement with animal rights and anti-vivisection campaigns in the late nineteenth century. The discussion focuses on one Loveday Brooke story in particular, “The Murder at Troyte’s Hill,” arguing that Pirkis dram…
Introduction
Why Alternative Dickens?This collection originally arose out of ways of thinking about Dickens explored in the bicentenary conference I co-organised at the University of Portsmouth, The Other Dickens (2012), in which we invited papers that considered 'others' within Dickens, other approaches to Dickens, and other aspects of his life and work that had not received prominent critical attention, across both Victorian and NeoVictorian contexts.Howeve…
We are seeing the past through the wrong end of the telescope’
Castle Dor (1962) offers a different model of history and place to that explored in du Maurier's other works, in particular her Cornish novels. Whereas her novels have often been criticised for employing a nostalgic view of history that sees the past as irretrievably lost, in Castle Dor time is intimately connected to space, aligning the novel with two critical treatments of time and space. The first, contemporary with du Maurier's work on the no…
Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Before the 2000s the humanities and social sciences paid little attention to the participation of non-human animals in human cultures.The entrenched idea of the human as a unique kind of being nourished a presumption that Homo sapiens should be the proper object of study for these fields, to the exclusion of lives beyond the human.Against this background, various academic disciplines can now be found in the process of executing an 'animal turn', …
We are seeing the past through the wrong end of the telescope’
Castle Dor (1962) offers a different model of history and place to that explored in du Maurier's other works, in particular her Cornish novels. Whereas her novels have often been criticised for employing a nostalgic view of history that sees the past as irretrievably lost, in Castle Dor time is intimately connected to space, aligning the novel with two critical treatments of time and space. The first, contemporary with du Maurier's work on the no…
We are seeing the past through the wrong end of the telescope’
Castle Dor (1962) offers a different model of history and place to that explored in du Maurier's other works, in particular her Cornish novels. Whereas her novels have often been criticised for employing a nostalgic view of history that sees the past as irretrievably lost, in Castle Dor time is intimately connected to space, aligning the novel with two critical treatments of time and space. The first, contemporary with du Maurier's work on the no…
Animal Voices
While previous readings of Catherine Louisa Pirkis’ series The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) have focused on Brooke’s status as New Woman detective, this article considers the series in the context of Pirkis’ own engagement with animal rights and anti-vivisection campaigns in the late nineteenth century. The discussion focuses on one Loveday Brooke story in particular, “The Murder at Troyte’s Hill,” arguing that Pirkis dram…
Introduction
Why Alternative Dickens?This collection originally arose out of ways of thinking about Dickens explored in the bicentenary conference I co-organised at the University of Portsmouth, The Other Dickens (2012), in which we invited papers that considered 'others' within Dickens, other approaches to Dickens, and other aspects of his life and work that had not received prominent critical attention, across both Victorian and NeoVictorian contexts.Howeve…
Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Before the 2000s the humanities and social sciences paid little attention to the participation of non-human animals in human cultures.The entrenched idea of the human as a unique kind of being nourished a presumption that Homo sapiens should be the proper object of study for these fields, to the exclusion of lives beyond the human.Against this background, various academic disciplines can now be found in the process of executing an 'animal turn', …
Andrew Glazzard, The Case of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story ‘The Final Problem’, but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes . While the outcry that supposedly followed Holmes' death was mostly apocryphal (the claim that readers wore black armbands in mourning has been frequently cited but never actually proved), by 1893 there was a substantial…
Wilkie Collins in Context
Black Peter
I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ’95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint...
Return of Sherlock Holmes
Literary Illusions
Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century’s most popular modes of performance: conjuring. It explores the ways in which Victorian literature frequently deployed the figure of the magician to explore performance magic as a metaphor for writing itself, and the ways in which conjurors themselves were authors (of highly fictionalised biographies), while authors explored the narrative oppor…
Literary Illusions
Explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century’s most popular modes of performance: conjuring Reads Victorian novels alongside an under-studied field of conjuring and performance manuals and biographies Explores and theorises an underexplored aspect of Dickens’ career (as an amateur magician), connecting this to his later public readings Combines analysis of canonical texts with less frequently criticised Vic…
Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)