12/7/2023 0 Comments The ghost of christmas past![]() ![]() Simon James, Professor of Victorian Literature and Head of the Department of English Studies at Durham University, analyses the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come.įor many of us, the consumption of A Christmas Carol, or one of its many cinematic or TV adaptations is a seasonal ritual, a part of our own childhood memories of Christmas. So many modern-day Christmas traditions were Victorian innovations – and while the story that began the 2,000-year-old tradition of Christmas is of course the story of Christ’s nativity, no other story is now more closely associated with the festive season than Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella ‘A Christmas Carol’.
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