Tag: A Christmas Carol
If He Could Turn Back Time: Scrooge’s Missing Hours in A Christmas Carol
Contributed by Christian Sidney Dickinson, Baptist College of Florida At the end of the First Stave of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol (1843), a disturbed Scrooge, after having conversed with the ghost of his long-departed (we know better than to say ‘dear’) business...
“Revising” Dickens: The Author as Scrooge in Oak Park Festival’s A Dickens Carol
Contributed by Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago A recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, entitled A Dickens Carol and directed by Kevin Theis, just experienced its second run at Oak Park Festival Theatre in Chicago, IL in December 2018. Playwright...
Using the Whole Animal: Domestic Economy in The Charles Dickens Cookbook
This post has been contributed by Christian Dickinson. In 1980, Brenda Marshall brought out The Charles Dickens Cookbook, a text which features a brilliantly eclectic mix of dishes and recipes from the mid-Victorian Era, based on the writings of the Inimitable himself. In the...
Man and Meat: A Christmas Carol’s Cannibalistic Menace in Historical Perspective
This post has been contributed by Lydia Craig. First the villain and then the hero of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843), the cold-hearted and wealthy businessman Ebenezer Scrooge initially refuses to empathize with or financially contribute towards the nourishment of London’s poor until bullied,...
The Man Who Invented Christmas to Become a Feature Film
This post has been contributed by Gina Dalfonzo. In 2011, historian and author Les Standiford published The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits. The book was an insightful, very thorough exploration of the...
Past, Present, and Future: The Dickensian (Christmas) Spirit
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk. In The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge (1990), Paul Davis argues that A Christmas Carol adapts itself to each historical era; that is, since its publication subsequent generations of readers, play-goers, listeners, and viewers have been...
How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters
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...
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