The University of Warwick launched its new Celebrating Dickens Mobile App on this week to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth.
In addition to the special Mobile App, the University of Warwick also carried out a week-long salutation to one of the greatest ever authors.
Exclusive video content was released on the Celebrating Dickens site each day, and a new Mobile App was released on Tuesday 7 February for Android, along with an iOS version for iPhone and iPad. Earlier today, the University released a feature-length documentary, including interviews with Warwick academics and Charles Dickens’ great-great-great granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley.
The Celebrating Dickens Mobile App offers an academic insight into the novels, life and times of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest ever storytellers.
Led by Charles Dickens expert Professor Jon Mee, from the University of Warwick’s English and Comparative Literary Studies Department, the App offers a plethora of podcasts, articles and videos exploring aspects of Victorian Britain, Charles Dickens’ novels and adaptations of his works.
Award-winning screenplay writer Andrew Davies, who adapted both Bleak House and Little Dorrit for the BBC, also contributes with an exclusive insight into how one goes about transferring Dickens’ illustrative text into compelling television.
Click here to visit the Celebrating Dickens website
See also our Feature on Charles Dickens
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