ABSTRACT
Entering the intersections between ecology, materialism and religion through a literary and imaginative approach, this chapter examines the fictional storyworld of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. After establishing three categories of this storyworld that allow for narrative transformation—tactilities, atmospherics and spiritual dynamics—and informed by the work of Elizabeth Grosz, Jane Bennett, Catherine Keller and Kate Rigby, among others, the chapter proceeds to investigate the relationship between these categories, arriving at an incarnational relationality with a special emphasis on the affective and processual nature of incarnation, to see that it profoundly enables capacities for transformation. The chapter ends with a step outside storyworld processes to consider hermeneutic spaces and readers' abilities to engage with our own incarnational reality, opening perhaps like Ebenezer Scrooge to unforeseen arcs of responsive, interrelated transformation.
