Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol ()

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Biographical Sketch......Page 10
The Story Behind the Story......Page 17
List of Characters......Page 23
Summary and Analysis......Page 27
Barbara Hardy on the Influence of Love on the Conversion Process......Page 55
Jane Vogel Discusses Allegory in A Christmas Carol......Page 58
Teresa R. Love Looks at Dickens and the Deadly Sin of Avarice......Page 63
Paul Davis on Scrooge’s Numerous Selves and Dickens’s Social Gospel......Page 65
Donald R. Burleson on the Portrayal of Uncle and Nephew......Page 72
R.D. Butterworth on the Work as a Blend of Novel and Masque......Page 74
Geoffrey Rowell Examines the Evolution of Christian Christmas......Page 80
John Bowen Offers Some Thoughts on “Marley was dead: to begin with.”......Page 84
Stephen Bertman Compares Carol and Dante’s Divine Comedy......Page 87
Les Standiford on A Christmas Carol as Dickens’s Social Gospel......Page 93
Joseph W. Childers Considers the Ideological Implications of an English Christmas......Page 95
Works by Charles Dickens......Page 102
Annotated Bibliography......Page 103
Contributors......Page 109
Acknowledgments......Page 111
Index......Page 113