A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Resources:

• Full text of A Christmas Carol from Project Gutenberg

• AUDIOBOOK: A Christmas Carol from Apple Podcasts

• Brief biography on Charles Dickens from Biography.com

• Resources on A Christmas Carol from The British Library

• "The origins of A Christmas Carol" from The British Library

• "Ten Things To Know About Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" by Paulette Beete for the National Endowment for the Arts

• "‘A Christmas Carol’ Turns 175" - an archive of The New York Times coverage

  • VIDEO: Charles Dickens: Tale of Ambition and Genius (Biography)

  • PODCAST: "A Christmas Carol" from BBC Radio's In Our Time

Online Articles:

• • "A Christmas Carol is not cosy, and its angry message should still haunt us" by Robyn Vinter for The Guardian

  • "A Christmas Carol Was Not His Best Holiday Novel, Charles Dickens Thought" by Danny Heitman for the National Endowment for the Humanities

  • "The economic sensibilities of 'A Christmas Carol'" by J.W.S.W. for The Economist

  • "Moral outrage and the need for ‘a hit’: the real story of why Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol" from Penguin Random House

  • "The quiet subversiveness of A Christmas Carol" by Francis Wade for New Humanist

  • "The Real Reason Charles Dickens Wrote A Christmas Carol" by John Broich for Time

  • "Why Charles Dickens Wrote ‘A Christmas Carol’" by Kat Eschner for Smithsonian Magazine

Critical Articles:

• "Dante's Role in the Genesis of Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol'" - Stephen Bertman

• "Eternal Returns- 'A Christmas Carol's' Ghosts of Repetition" - Brandon Chitwood

• "Ethical Metafiction in Dickens's Christmas Hauntings" - Brian Sabey

• "Father Christmas and Thomas Malthus: Charity, Epistemology, and Political Economy in 'A Christmas Carol'" - Jessica Kilgore

• "Grafting 'A Christmas Carol'" - Michael Hancher

• "Reading the Visual Text: 'A Christmas Carol'" - Michael Hancher

• "Spectacular Sympathy: Visuality and Ideology in Dickens's A Christmas Carol" - Audrey Jaffe