‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol
The paper argues that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights holds up a ‘glass darkly’ to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, amplifying the dark elements of humanity which Dickens would acknowledge more and more in later novels. In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2022
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | The paper argues that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights holds up a ‘glass darkly’ to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, amplifying the dark elements of humanity which Dickens would acknowledge more and more in later novels. In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. The essay closely contrasts that scene with the ‘Cratchits’ Christmas. |
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