{"id":230765,"date":"2024-04-03T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=230765"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:06:28","slug":"lorentzen-publishes-an-article-in-a-special-issue-of-dickens-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2024\/04\/03\/lorentzen-publishes-an-article-in-a-special-issue-of-dickens-quarterly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorentzen Publishes Article in Special Issue of &#8216;Dickens Quarterly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_6656\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6656\" class=\" wp-image-6656\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Lorentzen-Eric04-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Lorentzen\" width=\"224\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Lorentzen-Eric04-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Lorentzen-Eric04-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/Lorentzen-Eric04.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-6656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric G Lorentzen, Professor of English<\/p><\/div><p>Eric G Lorentzen, Professor of English, published &ldquo;A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture&rdquo; in the recent &ldquo;Dickens and His Publics&rdquo; special issue of&nbsp;<em>Dickens Quarterly<\/em>.&nbsp; The article examines the two sections of the Fall 2022 course that Lorentzen taught for the first time at UMW, English 251TT: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture, and the cultural studies methodologies that allowed his classes to connect with the ongoing influence that the author has in the twenty-first century, particularly with regard to social justice.&nbsp; Lorentzen argues that only by recognizing that Dickens&rsquo;s novels not only teach us a great deal about Victorian England, but also about our lives in the here and now, can we remain vibrantly one of Dickens&rsquo;s &ldquo;publics.&rdquo;&nbsp; We must transcend the usual &ldquo;wisdom of the head,&rdquo; the traditional academic study of his novels, and connect with the &ldquo;wisdom of the heart&rdquo; as well, the meaningful student-centered ways that his texts resonate in actual everyday lives &ndash; pedagogical advice that Dickens himself famously proffered in <em>Hard Times<\/em>.&nbsp; Lorentzen is preparing to teach the course for the second time, with two sections once again being offered for Fall 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric G Lorentzen, Professor of English, published &ldquo;A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture&rdquo; in the recent &ldquo;Dickens and His Publics&rdquo; special issue of&nbsp;Dickens Quarterly.&nbsp; The article examines the two sections of the Fall 2022 course that Lorentzen taught for the first time at UMW, English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":6656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9304],"class_list":["post-230765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-elorentzumw-edu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}