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"What right have you to be merry?": Silliness and Seriousness in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" When Suffering Enters A Christmas Carol Bearing Tidings in 'A Christmas Carol' Remember . . . Christmas Day Be a man, Scrooge. The Cross-Shaped Hole in A Christmas Carol The Incursion of Allegory in A Christmas Carol The Epistemology of Hospitality in A Christmas Carol Is “The Wisest Thing” a Moral Responsibility? Martineau and Benefit Clubs Participatory Recognition Naming John the Baptist S/spirit and hospitality in Luke 1 Directional Charity and the Revolutionary Table Church, State, and Hospitality The Least of Whom? Tracing the Element of Surprise in Matthew 25:31-46 'Speak...can't you?': Unseen Faces and Unusual Speech in Mary Barton “Now don’t be hasty, Mary Barton”: Guilt, Conscience, and Moral Judgment in Gaskell On Endings and Being Out of Reach Recognizing the (M)other: Maternal Relationships in Mary Barton (Mis)Taken Identities in Mary Barton: Sight and Deceit in the Female Tête-à-tête Anvilicious Narm in Mary Barton ? The Goodness of Grief in Mary Barton When Harry Met Mary: A Flirtation Without Narration The Carson Women Crucifiers and Crucified: Questioning Christological Identity in Mary Barton Do Not Our Hearts Burn Within Us? Beyond Apophaticism? Hospitality and Judgment in John Chrysostom Identification and Recognition in "Jesus Christ in Texas" Christ the Deceiver Reading Consolation in Nature, and the Consoling Nature of Reading in Mary Shelley’s "The Last Man" Psalm 8 according to The Last Man Nature in the Time of Plague To Say Nothing of the Dog Phantom Figures Quest for Eden or March Into Canaan? Creatures Forgotten & Remembered: Animal Hospitality in The Last Man "Now is man lord of creation?" A Heavenless Hospitality Wherefore the Sybil? The Right of Kings in The Last Man Excess and Obscurity Pulling Up a Sibyl by Her Own Bootstraps: Narrative Contradictions in "The Last Man" A Short Essay in Observations and Questions In Whose Image? Impossible Ideals: Addressing the IPW and Aporetic Tensions in the Rhetorical Imperative Democracy, Fear, and Vanquishing Stepping into Secularism: Complicating Jean-Luc Marion’s Post-“Charlie Hebdo” Advice to Muslims Trusting a Benign Power “Some folks ’ud say”: Narrative Scorn at the Sign of the Rainbow Silas Marner, Hospitality, and the Gothic Imagination of Raveloe "Harmless" Greed in Silas Marner Welcome and Estrangement Who and What is Change? Poverty in Silas Marner & Michael Absence in Rublev's Trinity What Did Abraham Know? To Cross a Threshold: The Relationship between Hospitality and Place Considering Hospitality's Relation to Christian Practice: Methods and Sources Reading the Servant in Genesis 18 Hospitality and Violence in Genesis 18