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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"A Christmas Carol"”.
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"Your Reclamation”: The Gothic Child and Moral Restoration in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
<p>Charles Dickens’s <em>A Christmas Carol</em> (1843), an example of Victorian Gothic literature, portrays spirits escorting Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey through time in order to transform him from a miser to a benefactor. Dickens’s text has received much critical attention, and while most …
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'What is Life But Learning!': Informal Education in A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, and Great Expectations
… in three of Charles Dickens's novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852), and Great Expectations (1860). While substantial scholarly attention has been paid to Dickens's interest in formal education, for example his educational reform efforts, his fictional depictions of schools …
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The Novel Novel: Dickens' Reformulations of Shakespeare's Hamlet
… David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and A Christmas Carol and divide my thesis into three major sections, the stage, the hero, and King Hamlet’s ghost.
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The subject between texts in Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry
… Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(1865) and A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. I argue that the palimpsestic technique goes hand in hand with Pizarnik’s implementation of nonsensical methods of writing, employed by la polígrafa and la niña. In this dissertation I define a nonsense …
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"To keep Christmas well": gender and consumerism in the Age of Industrialization
Christmas evolved as an outgrowth of the mid-winter pre-Christian festivals of Saturnalia, Kalends, and Yule, to an overly commercialized, mass-market driven enterprise. Modern Christmas celebrations are inextricably connected to place, family, and food, but today’s observances have one thing in …
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Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Literature
<p>The theatre in the nineteenth century was a source of entertainment similar in popularity to today's film culture, but critics, of both that age and today, often look down on nineteenth-century theatre as lacking in aesthetic merit. Just as many of the films now being produced in Hollywood are …