Publication: “Dead, to begin with”: The Role of Ghosts in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
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2022-05-10
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MacNeil, Catherine. 2022. “Dead, to begin with”: The Role of Ghosts in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Master's thesis, Harvard University Division of Continuing Education.
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An exploration of the role of the ghosts in Charles Dickens’s "A Christmas Carol", specifically considering the influence of religion, the eighteenth century Gothic tradition, and the nineteenth century ghost story on Dickens’s choices when crafting the novel. This work seeks to examine how and why the ghosts determine the course of Scrooge’s future. Essentially – why ghosts?
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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Christianity, Ghosts, Gothic, Spiritualism, English literature, Literature, Spirituality
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