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Charles Dickens and Victorian Christmas
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Charles Dickens and Victorian Christmas

A magical literary journey to celebrate the holiday spirit!
Created byDr. Fernanda Korovsky Moura
Last updated 11/2023
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Learn about Charles Dickens' writing career, his relationship with Christmas and what led him to write Christmas stories.
  • Learn all about Christmas traditions in England prior to and after Charles Dickens, and how the arrival of a German queen influenced the way Christmas was celeb
  • Learn about Dickens' five Christmas books and the Christmas stories published in his literary magazines.
  • A magical literary journey to celebrate the holiday spirit!

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 1h 45m total length

  • Introduction to the course1:06

    Explore Charles Dickens’s influence on Victorian Christmas, from pre-Dickens traditions to post A Christmas Carol innovations, and discover how his Christmas books reshaped holiday-story publication in five lessons.

  • Dickens and Christmas22:09

    Explore how Charles Dickens linked Christmas with fiction through serialized novels and vivid depictions of childhood poverty. Trace his rise from debt to celebrity via Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist.

  • Christmas traditions prior to Charles Dickens13:23

    Explore Christmas in England before Dickens: greenery, extended celebrations from Christmas Eve to 12th night, and the emergence of the ornate 12th cake with a hidden pea or bean.

  • Christmas in the Victorian Era20:32

    The Victorian era reshaped Christmas through industrialization and urbanization, as Queen Victoria popularized a royal Christmas tree, while Christmas cards began in 1843 and Dickens highlighted workers' hardships.

  • Dickens' Christmas Books31:09

    Dickens's Christmas books—A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain—promote education and charity in Victorian Britain.

  • Christmas stories17:18

    Dickens reinvented Christmas storytelling by shifting to serialized Christmas stories in Household Words and later All the Year Round. He fueled holiday reading with collaborative specials and gothic tales.

Requirements

  • An advanced level of English. No other prerequisite required.

Description

This online course is a journey back in time to Victorian England to explore how the author Charles Dickens (1812-1870), one of the most celebrated names in 19th-century English literature, changed the way the English thought about and celebrated Christmas. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, which lasted from 1837 to 1901. This era is known for significant social, economic, and technological changes.

We'll also go further back in time to understand how Christmas was celebrated prior to Charles Dickens, and what roles the arrival of Queen Charlotte and the industrial revolution played in this holiday's traditions. This is what you'll learn in this course:


  • Learn about Charles Dickens' writing career, his relationship with Christmas and what led him to write Christmas stories.

  • Learn all about Christmas traditions in England prior to and after Charles Dickens, and how the arrival of the German Queen Charlotte influenced the way Christmas was celebrated in Victorian England. Christmas trees, pantomimes, Christmas decorations, Christmas cards... learn how and why these traditions were established!

  • Learn about Dickens' five Christmas books and the Christmas stories published in his literary magazines.


    It's a magical literary journey to celebrate the holiday spirit!

    Happy holidays!

Who this course is for:

  • Book lovers and enthusiasts of English literature.

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