Author Archives: Quincie Li

For my last post, I wanted to reflect on how we continue to pay tribute to the overall legacy of Charles Dickens, and in looking up how people remember him, I discovered, to my surprise, that Dickens is actually the … Continue reading →

BBC is producing a new 20 part drama for this holiday season, which is titled, Dickensian. It sounds pretty intriguing, as it will feature various famous Dickensian characters all interacting with each other. Here is a link to the DailyMail … Continue reading →

Maybe it’s because I’m taking this course and therefore extra vigilant about hearing his name, but another TV show I watch had a Dickens reference! This is the conversation that took place in Season 2, Episode 5 of FXX’s You’re … Continue reading →

To my surprise, while watching a recent episode of Jane the Virgin, there was an Oliver Twist reference! The protagonist of the series, Jane, is deciding whether or not her son should have access to a trust fund. As she … Continue reading →

I recently watched the 2004 BBC miniseries adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, a novel that was published in Household Words. According to some quick Internet searches, it appears that Charles Dickens thought Gaskell’s novel was too long (seems hypocritical … Continue reading →

This last year, I’ve started watching Shameless, a Showtime television show based on a UK series by the same name. As we’ve progressed through this class, I’ve drawn a lot of similarities between the show and the books we’ve read in class, … Continue reading →

As I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed yesterday, I came across this event: “Dickens of a Christmas,” which is an annual event put on by the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County. The event description reads, “Franklin’s Main … Continue reading →

In class on Thursday, I brought up Stephen King’s categorization of the three types of terror while we were discussing The Woman in White. I did a little more digging into it, since it had been a while since I … Continue reading →

Beginning around this time last year, I started listening to a lot of podcasts. While thinking about the role advertising plays in our daily lives, I decided to focus on the role advertising plays in podcasts. Podcasts are always episodic … Continue reading →

In a recent essay by Emily Nussbaum in the New Yorker, Nussbaum tracks how advertising fits in with television and how, as the television viewer has become increasingly able to bypass commercials, the television business model has changed. Nussbaum writes, … Continue reading →