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Dickens and Christmas
- Title
- Dickens and Christmas / Lucinda Hawksley.
- Author
- Hawksley, Lucinda
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- vi, 202 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically to "strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor mans child", and it began the Victorians obsession with Christmas.
- Subject
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Christmas books, Christmas stories (Dickens, Charles)
- 1800-1899
- Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography
- Authors, English > 19th century > Biography
- Christmas in literature
- Christmas stories, English > History and criticism
- Christmas > England > 19th century > History
- Authors, English
- Christmas
- Christmas stories, English
- Manners and customs
- Novelists, English
- England > Social life and customs > 19th century
- England
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-197) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Charles Dickens's First Christmas -- ch. Two Deck the Halls -- ch. Three ̀He's Behind You!' -- The Theatre at Christmas -- ch. Four Love at Christmas -- ch. Five Traditions -- Old and New -- ch. Six ̀Ring In The New' -- ch. Seven ̀Pure as the New Fallen Snow' -- ch. Eight ̀Bah! Humbug!' -- ch. Nine À New Heart for a New Year, Always' -- ch. Ten ̀The Luckiest Thing in All the World' -- ch. Eleven Battle of Life -- ch. Twelve The Haunted Man -- ch. Thirteen The New Fashion for the ̀Christmas Story' -- ch. Fourteen Christmas All the Year Round -- ch. Fifteen Empty Chairs -- ch. Sixteen ̀Heaven at Last, For All of Us'.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1515
- ISBN
- 1526712261
- 9781526712264
- OCLC
- 991214395
- Author
- Hawksley, Lucinda, author.
- Title
- Dickens and Christmas / Lucinda Hawksley.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-197) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1515