Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood po…
Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of a Victorian novelist deeply intrigued by 19th-century ideas about the unconscious mind. This book shows how unconscious processes and acts of self-projection were used by Dickens to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, reveal…
