‘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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2012-01-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-80ce9b07a4144d9cab1829d4394ff05d2025-01-30T10:20:59ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492012-01-0110.4000/cve.12408‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas CarolAndré L. DeCuirThe 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.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12408 |
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| title | ‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol |
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