John Leech illustration depicting Marley's ghost appearing to a postprandial Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol in Prose by Charles Dickens, 1843.
Featured on PDR in the essay Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
Alicia Puglionesi explores a curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War, in which old ideas about the prophetic nature of dreaming collided with loss, longing, and new possibilities of communication at a distance.
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Marley's Ghost Appearing to a Postprandial Scrooge
Artist
Date
1843
From
A Christmas Carol in Prose
Image Size
848 x 1024
