Hugo Bowles on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr Hugo Bowles (Associate Prof of English Language and Linguistics,Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata)pursues many research interests, such as applied linguistics,particularly stylistics, English for specific purposes, and languageeducation. Bowles’s latest book "Dickens and the Stenographic Mind"(Oxford University Press, 2018) explores the role of stenography in theliterary and non-literary writing of Charles Dickens. His research shedslight on a little-known area of Dickens's professional life and isrelevant to a number of important debates in Victorian studies,including orality and literacy in the nineteenth century, the role ofvoice and voicing in Dickens's writing process, his relationship withhis readers, and his various writing personae as law reporter,sketch-writer, journalist, and novelist. In order to facilitate researchinto this subject, Bowles hopes to digitize and decipher all ofDickens’s short-hand notes and works with the aid of libraries holdingthese writings.
Read more about "Two Brothers" here.
Dickens and the Stenographic Mind (Oxford University Press, 2018): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dickens-and-the-stenographic-mind-9780198829072?cc=us&lang=en&