In this episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive, Collin breaks down the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come portion of the story. Learn about 'Change, Victorian burial traditions, offal, and much more.

Sources used in this episode and additional reading:

https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_Alley

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=grim

https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Old+Scratch

https://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2012/09/old-scratch.html

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rag-and-bone-man

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/regulating-the-rag-and-bone-man/

https://victorianmonsters.wordpress.com/victorian-funerary-practices/

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/why-we-no-longer-keep-our-dead-at-home

On this bonus episode, I'm counting down my 25 favorite films since the year 2000, in honor of the recent New York Times poll. Hopefully you'll find something to check out or revisit! Let me know what yours are.

Since it's the only version of A Christmas Carol based around July 4, Collin is taking this month to review An American Carol. From David Zucker (The Naked Gun, Airplane, Top Secret, and apparently the Republican party) comes this 2008 political comedy. Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) is a documentary filmmaker who needs to love the 4th of July, and he'll have his views changed with the reprimanding of three ghosts (Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Trace Adkins) and a whole lot of conservative guest stars. Can this take on A Christmas Carol that has the complete opposite message of Dickens book beat the odds and actually be funny?

Sources used in this episode:

https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

https://archive.jsonline.com/entertainment/movies/32473094.html

https://www.avclub.com/an-american-carol-1798215504

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zucker

https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/what-happened-to-general-patton-after-wwii-25066057164f

Martin Blumenson, Patton: The Man Behind The Legend, 1885-1945, 1985, William Morrison, New York, p. 281

https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/oliver-stone-lobbing-grenades-in-all-directions-pptgs7pg872

It's the second half of the Ghost of Christmas Past, and this episode covers Scrooge and the Ghost visiting lighthouse keepers, sailors, and miners, Fred and his friends, and of course the children Ignorance and Want. Find out what all those games Fred was playing are about, what a "children's Twelfth Night party" is, and much more.

Sources and additional links:

https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/green/70.html

https://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Catch-Glee.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20070402141426/http://www.childrenparty.com/partygames/printversion/forfeits.html

http://www.fullbooks.com/My-Book-of-Indoor-Games1.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake

We're into the third stave of A Christmas Carol, and there is a lot to cover in this one. In this episode, Collin talks about the first half of the Ghost of Christmas Present portion of the story, including an argument between Scrooge and the Ghost about bakers being open on Sundays, the entirety of the Cratchits scene, and lots and lots of descriptions about food.

Sources and additional links:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-and-toss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitching_pennies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopiahttps://www.oed.com/dictionary/biffin_n?tab=factsheet#21019265

https://www.bard.org/study-guides/vocabulary-and-glossary-of-terms-othello/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/pediatrics/article-abstract/516441

https://web.archive.org/web/20100620084555/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=adamant&resource=Webster%27s&quicksearch=on

https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Poetry/a_child_of_the_snowschesterton.htm

https://musicb3.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/the-song-of-tiny-tim/

Just when I thought I was done with the 1970s adaptations, I learned there was one more. This TV movie is so obscure that it only aired once and only exists in a home recording. Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol tells the story of Cyrus Flint, a 1970s bank manager (played by Hoyt Axton) who gets a visit from some Christmas ghosts and hears a lot of country music. Also starring Mel Tillis, Lynn Anderson, Martha Raye, Dottie West, The Statler Brothers, and many more.

Balladeer's Blog Review: https://glitternight.com/2011/12/12/christmas-carol-a-thon-2011-skinflint-1979/

Just when I thought I was done with the 1970s adaptations, I learned there was one more. This TV movie is so obscure that it only aired once and only exists in a home recording. Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol tells the story of Cyrus Flint, a 1970s bank manager (played by Hoyt Axton) who gets a visit from some Christmas ghosts and hears a lot of country music. Also starring Mel Tillis, Lynn Anderson, Martha Raye, Dottie West, The Statler Brothers, and many more.

Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. This episode covers the second stave, which involves the Ghost of Christmas Past. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more.

Sources and additional links:

⁠LibriVox Audiobook⁠

https://librivox.org/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-4/Charles Dickens' sister and nephew

https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/dickens-characters-c-d.htmlJack Robinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Robinson_(mythical_person)Organ of Benevolence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolence_(phrenology)

Negus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negus_(drink)

Roger de Coverly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_de_Coverley

Written in March by William Wordsworth

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/written-in-march

Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. This episode covers the second half of the book's first stave, which involves the haunting of Marley's ghost. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more.

Sources and additional links:⁠

LibriVox Audiobook⁠:

https://librivox.org/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-4/

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

By Washington Irving

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2048/2048-h/2048-h.htm

Origin of ghosts rattling chains:

https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_chainedghosts.html#:~:text=It%20has%20often%20been%20said,dungeon%20and%20the%20torture%20chamber.

Letters of Pliny

By Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Translated by William Melmoth

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2811/2811-h/2811-h.htm

"Marley had no bowels" meaning

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (2006). "Introduction". In Dickens, Charles (ed.). A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. vii–xxix. ISBN 978-0-19-920474-8.

Witching Hour

https://www.britannica.com/topic/witching-hour

Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more. This episode covers the first half of the book's first stave, from the beginning of the story up through Bob Cratchit leaving the counting house.

Sources and additional links:

LibriVox Audiobook

Ghost Stories in Victorian England

Dead as a Doornail

Dead as a Doornail #2

John Elwes

Who Was the Real Ebenezer Scrooge

Humbug

Debtor's Prison

Workhouses (Many books linked on this page)

Workhouse Documentary

Thomas Robert Malthus essay

The Treadmill

Dunstan