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In this beautifully illustrated, richly contextualized study, Robert Patten traces the often surprising and deeply-rooted connections between death and Christmas festivities in Dickens's Christmas books and in his own experiences of the winter solstice holidays. * Dickens Quarterly * This is a thoughtful, comprehensive representation of the book, by one of the most informed of all Dickensians. * Philip V. Allingham, The Victorian Web *

In this beautifully illustrated, richly contextualized study, Robert Patten traces the often surprising and deeply-rooted connections between death and Christmas festivities in Dickens's Christmas books and in his own experiences of the winter solstice holidays. * Dickens Quarterly *

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Robert L. Patten retired as Autrey Professor Emeritus in Humanities and Emeritus Professor of English at Rice University; he continues as a Senior Research Fellow, non-resident, at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. He earned his B.A. at Swarthmore and his PhD at Princeton and has devoted his research and teaching primarily to British nineteenth-century literature, book illustration, and print history. For these subjects he has received Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other grants, and spent a year each at the National Humanities Center and the National Gallery of Art.

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