Dr Polly Dickson's Outputs (13)

Anthropomorphic Carrot: Tales from Hoffmann (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Dickson, P. (2025). Anthropomorphic Carrot: Tales from Hoffmann. London Review of Books

Doodle Nation: Notes on Distracted Drawing (2024)
Digital Artefact
Dickson, P. (2024). Doodle Nation: Notes on Distracted Drawing. [The Paris Review]

Fantasies of Home: Heimat in E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'Haimatochare' (2023)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2023). Fantasies of Home: Heimat in E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'Haimatochare'. The German Quarterly, 96(1), 6-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12318

E. T. A. Hoffmann's Haimatochare, an epistolary fiction set in Hawaii, defamiliarizes the narrative of an erotic colonial fantasy by coaxing the reader into the assumption that its alluring central figure is an Indigenous woman and then revealing her... Read More about Fantasies of Home: Heimat in E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'Haimatochare'.

Romanticism, Realism, and the Lines of Mimesis (2023)
Book
Dickson, P. (in press). Romanticism, Realism, and the Lines of Mimesis. Edinburgh University Press

Hoffmann’s Signature Doodles (2022)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2022). Hoffmann’s Signature Doodles. Literatur für Leser, 45(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.3726/lfl.2022.01.06

As scholars familiar with his manuscripts and drawings will know, E.T.A. Hoffmann had the idiosyncratic and rather charming habit of signing off some of his informal letters not with a signature in the conventional sense, but with a spontaneous self-... Read More about Hoffmann’s Signature Doodles.

E. T. A. Hoffmanns Rezeption in Grossbritannien (2020)
Digital Artefact
Dickson, P. (2020). E. T. A. Hoffmanns Rezeption in Grossbritannien. [[Media unknown]]

'Schlemihl for ever': two portraits by E. T. A. Hoffmann (2020)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2020). 'Schlemihl for ever': two portraits by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 42(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2020.1773168

Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac (2020)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2020). Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac. Comparative Literature, 72(1), 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7909972

This article examines the figure of an undulating line, or “squiggle,” printed initially in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and copied by two nineteenth-century writers: first, by the German E. T. A. Hoffmann, in a little-known fragment, and, secon... Read More about Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac.

"The Loosest Sketch in Nature...": Balzac, Sterne, et l'esquisse littéraire (2019)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2019). "The Loosest Sketch in Nature...": Balzac, Sterne, et l'esquisse littéraire. L'Année Balzacienne, 20(1), 195-209

Whilst English visual art plays a minor role in La Comédie humaine, the novelist Laurence Sterne, whose influence on Balzac is widely recognized, is the mediator of some of Balzac’s most visual narrative flourishes and reflections. Drawing from criti... Read More about "The Loosest Sketch in Nature...": Balzac, Sterne, et l'esquisse littéraire.

Grave duty, unbridled love (2018)
Digital Artefact
Dickson, P. (2018). Grave duty, unbridled love. [Book Review; Times Literary Supplement]

Figures of Feeling in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin (2017)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2017). Figures of Feeling in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin. Nineteenth-century French studies, 45(3-4), 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2017.0002

In this article, I read Balzac's La Peau de chagrin as a novel of feeling, in which Raphaël's act of telling his life story entails a sensory encounter with the narrative self. Beginning with the novel's emblematic epigraph, then following through a... Read More about Figures of Feeling in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin.

Interior Matters: Secrecy and Hunger in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” (2016)
Book Chapter
Dickson, P. (2016). Interior Matters: Secrecy and Hunger in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”. In Katherine Mansfield and Psychology (11-22). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474417556-004

Pease Porridge, Cold: What to eat at the North Pole (2015)
Other
Dickson, P. (2015). Pease Porridge, Cold: What to eat at the North Pole. [Cabinet Magazine]