By Mary E. Hull
Censorship in the United States discusses why many gadgets of paintings, literature, and pop culture are thought of debatable, and examines the arguments of each side. It explores the present wave of censorship within the kind of political correctness and covers groundbreaking litigation and proposed laws.
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43 Slim, emotionally charged novels met the needs of the Christmas evening read. As consumer reports, reviews tell potential buyers when Christmas books could not be completed in the span of a single evening’s reading circle. ”44 Christmas books, however, were occasional literature specifically consumed as single helpings of holiday fiction in the face of libraries’ demands for triple-decker narratives. , publishers sold short pieces of fiction that equaled the length of two numbers of a serialized novel, which cost 1s.
Not all Christmas book narratives maintained the same rhetoric of reform; however, their reenactment of Dickens’s narrative form in effect commented on issues of societal improvement. While many Christmas books lacked the Dickensian rhetoric of reform, their plots allegorically situated national problems within 26 Victor i a n Chr istm as in Pr int a domestic stage. By probing those anxieties, texts by authors like Catherine Gore, William Thackeray, Henry and Augustus Mayhew, and others imagined solutions for the English nation.
The text saw seven editions by May 1844. A displeased Dickens switched publishers and looked ahead to the publication of a “new” Carol to help relieve him of his debts. The Chimes duly appeared in time for Christmas 1844. 54 The next year The Battle of Life sold 23,000 on the first day alone while Thackeray’s first Christmas book, Mrs. 55 One reviewer found it necessary in 1849 to remind his audience that “Christmas was Christmas . . many, many centuries before Charles Dickens began to celebrate him in Carols and Chimes.