Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Insight Text Guide

Description

Insight Text Guides - A Christmas Carol is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Charles Dickens' novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis, along with evaluations of genre, structure and language. Important contextual information on Dickens and the historical setting, as well as an exploration of themes such as memory, festivity and community, give students a deeper understanding of the text. Challenging essay questions and advice on approaches to writing responses help students develop the ability to engage critically with the novel.

Author description

Grace Moore's Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004) was shortlisted for the 2006 NSW Premier's Award for Literary Scholarship. She is the editor of Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011) and the co-editor (with Andrew Maunder) of Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation, as well as a number of articles on Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature. She is at present working on a guide to the Victorian novel (Continuum, 2012) and a book-length study of bushfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. She teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia.