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1 Among Farina’s ten previous books published by MacFarland, the three most recent are Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the Anti-Mafia Movement (2020); Saint James the Greater in History, Art and Culture (2018); and The Afterlife of Adam Smith: The Influence, Interpretation and Misinterpretation of His Economic Philosophy, 1760s–2010s (2015).
2 Works specifically about screen adaptations of Scrooge are cited later in the book.
3 For a quick overview of the mixed critical reviews of this film, see the Rotten Tomatoes website.
4 The American Board of Rabbis, whose efforts helped delay the US release of Lean’s 1948 Twist by three years, called the film “a vehicle of blatant antisemitism” due to Guiness’s portrayal of Fagin as a monster with a gigantic nose, gleaming eyes, and money-grubbing mannerisms. In fairness to Dickens himself, one should note that he eventually tried to atone for his antisemitism in Twist by creating a good Jewish character, Riah, in Our Mutual Friend (Lampert).
5 Howe xviii–xx.
6 Such as that by Tomalin (whom Farina often cites) or the longer volume by Kaplan.
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Valerie H. Pennanen
Valerie H. Pennanen is professor emerita of history and former chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Calumet College of St. Joseph, Whiting, Indiana, USA.