Dickens, death, and Christmas / Robert L. Patten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patten, Robert L., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas in literature.

Death in literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This study considers manifestations of Christmas in Dickens's work and explores how death, time, change, charity, love, and religious belief provide a fresh basis on which to assess how Dickens conceived of Christmas and New Year.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Dickens by Margaret Gillies

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Illustrations

A Note about References

Epigraphs

1. A Frequent Visitor

2. Dickens's Christmases to 1836

3. Pickwick and After

4. Dickens Contemplates Sledge Hammer Blows

5. Yuletide Celebrations in the 1840s

6. Marley Was Dead

7. Ringing Out Change

8. Chirping

9. Battling for his Life

10. Bargain Haunters

11. Thereafter

12. Endings

Appendix I: Dickens's Essays

Appendix II: Dickens and Unitarianism

Appendix III: Dickens on Victorian Religious Disputes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Patten, Robert L. Dickens, Death, and Christmas

ISBN:

0-19-195371-7

0-19-267710-1

0-19-267711-X

OCLC:

1381713401