SOURCE: “Sponging the Stone: Transformation in A Christmas Carol,” in Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4, December, 1994, pp. 172–76.
In the following essay, Patterson contends that to “understand the significance of the Carol is to integrate the psychological and its spiritual message.”
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