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Federalist Radio Hour

Dickens, Modernity, And A Christmas Classic

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Dwight Lindley, an associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the Christian themes present in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and explain why the classic stands the test of time.

You can find more information about Lindley's A Christmas Carol course here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:49.3

I'm Emily Jreshensky, culture editor here at the Federalist.

0:51.6

As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist. As always you can email the show at

0:53.0

radio at the Federalist.com follow us on Twitter at fDR LST. Make sure to

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subscribe wherever you download your podcasts into the premium version of our

1:01.4

website as well. Today we are joined by

1:03.6

Hillsdale College Professor Dwight Lindley who is currently running an online

1:09.1

course, teaching an online course, called Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol.

1:14.0

And you can by the way go to hillsdill.

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E. not just to learn more but also to sign up for the course

1:22.0

because as I mentioned earlier it is online so it's

1:24.0

accessible you don't have to be in in Little Hillsdale Michigan to take the course so

1:28.8

Professor Lindley thank you so much for joining us.

1:31.0

Thank you Emily happy to be here. Of course. Would you

1:35.2

mind telling us just a little bit more about the course and what you're hoping to sort of

1:39.5

get across with it? Sure, it's a short thing.

1:44.0

It just has one little bit of a little lecture for historical introduction and then one lecture about each of the so-called staves of the book which are like little

1:56.0

chapters and so it's meant to be a brief but compelling take on something that is probably familiar to most people

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