Charles Dickens' Christmas
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Charles Dickens' Christmas

A Yuletide Journey through Christmas Past

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eBook - ePub

Charles Dickens' Christmas

A Yuletide Journey through Christmas Past

About this book

'I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year.' - Charles Dickens

Between Charles Dickens' birth in 1812 and his death in 1870, Christmas had transformed from what was essentially a quiet family day to a bustling commercial celebration with cards, advertisements, pantomimes and even public decorative displays.

Through Dickens' writing, family recipes, time at the pantomime and festive tours of America, Charles Dickens' Christmas explores the sweeping social and technological changes of Dickens' lifetime that led to this surge of Christmas popularity ā€“ which Dickens so ably harnessed.

This festive season, step back in time with this delightful compilation to explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of a literary icon.

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Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2025
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781837050161
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. The Precursor: Washington Irvingā€™s Old Christmas
  8. Early Influences on Dickens
  9. A Pickwickian Comment
  10. Schooling and Religion
  11. The Pickwickian Precursors
  12. Dickens and Nostalgia
  13. A Terrifying Tale for Christmas
  14. Skaiting and Misfortune
  15. Dickensā€™ Own Domestic Front
  16. Food, Glorious Food
  17. The First American Tour
  18. Dickens, the Americans and Their View of Winter
  19. Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
  20. Edgar Allan Poeā€™s ā€˜The Purloined Letterā€™
  21. Edgar Allan Poeā€™s ā€˜The Bellsā€™
  22. An American Snowstorm
  23. Emily Brontƫ on Snow
  24. Revisiting Old Themes
  25. Another Theme Revisited: The Chimes: A Goblin Story
  26. The Italian Connection
  27. Dickens and the Afterlife
  28. Dickens and Thackeray
  29. A Sideswipe at Dickens?
  30. The Rose and The Ring: Thackerayā€™s Take on the Fairy Tale
  31. A Literary Criticism of A Christmas Carol
  32. A Christmas Carol: The Most Successful Self-Publishing Venture
  33. Another Christmas Tale: The Cricket on the Hearth
  34. From Elizabeth Gaskellā€™s ā€˜Christmas Storms and Sunshineā€™ (1848)159
  35. A Second American Journey: Absence at Christmas, Frustration and Exhaustion
  36. Postscript
  37. Acknowledgements

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