Christmas And Charles Dickens (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century)

"You could say, couldn't you, that Charles Dickens was the man who invented Christmas?" When he was curator of London's Charles Dickens Museum, Dr. Parker was frequently asked this question by journalists and visitors. Proponents of the connection between Dickens and Christmas argue that the novelist redirected public attention to the old Christian customs and festivals, as though England had ceased to be jolly through the decline of the Middle Ages and the rise of Modernity. To set the record straight and correct such blind assertions, Parker began this book.