Title

Gift-Wrapping the Hungry Forties: Format vs. Text in Dickens's Christmas Books

Document Type

Article

Subject Area(s)

Victorian literature, publishing history

Abstract

Contrasts the significance or cultural meanings of the gift-book format in which Dickens's Christmas books were published with the increasingly disenchanted social message of the stories themselves. Focuses on A Christmas Carol and The Chimes.

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