Frieze Lecture: The life and work of Charles Dickens (Part 1)

Dr. Karin Youngberg, Augustana’s Conrad Bergendoff Chair in the Humanities, presented the first of the 2012 Frieze Lectures at the Rock Island Library on Oct. 23. The theme for the 15th annual lecture series - in the bicentennial year of Dickens’ the birth - is “What the Dickens?“ Dr. Youngberg, a professor of English, gave an overview of the life and work of the author.