""This excellent, multilayered analysis of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) and its myriad adaptations, interpretations, and reinterpretations illustrates that the classic story was 'only the beginning of the larger culture-text of the Carol written over the last century and a half and still being written today.'...He informs his own text with special effectiveness through iconographical examples...Through this insightful study readers will learn almost as much about British and American life since 1843 as they will about the mutations of Dickens's Carol.""-Choice