Elliot L. Gilbert (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: “The Ceremony of Innocence: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol,” in PMLA, Vol. 90, No. 1, 1975, pp. 22–31.
[In the following essay, Gilbert considers the “Scrooge problem,” or the issue of the credibility of Scrooge's conversion during the course of A Christmas Carol.]
As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty …
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It is impossible to get into a serious discussion of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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