BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great War
  - Professor Jerry White - Birkbeck College\, University of London
DTSTART:20141028T174500Z
DTEND:20141028T191500Z
UID:TALK54204@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:The novels of Charles Dickens reached new heights of popularit
 y during the First World War\, symbolising for many the quintessence of En
 glishness and the values that the war was being fought to defend. Dickensi
 ans of every stripe used his name and works to raise funds for the war and
  to stimulate pro-British feeling in the colonies and America. But Dickens
  was hugely popular too in Germany\, so that his writing could be found in
  trenches on both sides of No-Man’s Land\, sometimes to the consternatio
 n of Dickensians at home. Jerry White charts the use and abuse of Dickens 
 and his legacy across the course of the First World War.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR