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- Title
"I am not going on": Negotiating Christmas Publishing Rhythms with Dickens's Mugby Junction.
- Authors
Chapman, Anne
- Abstract
In 1866, Charles Dickens added Mugby Junction, the eighth and penultimate extra Christmas number of his weekly periodical All the Year Round, to an inundated seasonal publishing market. This article argues that Mugby Junction suggests what provoked the pain, pressure, and eventual despair that Dickens felt about producing extra Christmas numbers. He expressed an ambivalence towards the effects of human interaction with modernity's rhythms (to which publishing contributed). He addressed the interference and the stasis of the Christmas publishing cycle by offering a model of "taking one's time," thereby discovering what it means to be "not going on."
- Subjects
MUGBY Junction (Book); CHRISTMAS; DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2018, Vol 51, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.2018.0003