Professor Goldie Morgentaler recently gave this public lecture on A Christmas Carol at the City Hall in Lethbridge. Her talk lays out the history of A Christmas Carol, which was not intended as a feel-good fairy-tale but as an enraged tirade against the evils of capitalism. The novel provides a perfect example of how great writing can influence culture and how vital literature can be to the wellbeing of society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyrV4nnuy-U

Goldie Morgentaler is Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge, where she teaches 19th-century British and American literature, as well as modern Jewish literature. She is the author of Dickens and Heredity (Palgrave 2000) and of numerous articles on Dickens and Victorian Literature. She is a past president of the Dickens Society and current member of the Dickens Quarterly Editorial Board and the Dickens Society’s Board of Trustees.

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