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Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas
John Grossman
ISBN 13: 9781584796992
Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
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A colorful assortment of two hundred antique postcards, greeting cards, advertising giveaways, and other ephemera from the Victorian and Edwardian eras offers a unusual study of the darker side of Christmas past, a holiday marked by dissipation, drunkeness, and other rowdy misbehavior.
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Book Description: Stewart, Tabori Chang Inc, United States, 2008. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 165 x 165 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Oh, by gosh, by golly. It's time for . . . rowdy bands of drunkards roaming the streets, lighting firecrackers, and firing off guns? Gangs of masked youths invading people's houses, demanding food, drink, and money--and threatening to break the windows (or worse) unless they're given what they want? Welcome to Christmas, circa 1800. Yes, the season of light, joy, and gift-giving was once regarded as a time of darkness, danger, and dissipation--and celebrated with all-too-public displays of noisemaking, inebriation, and gluttonous overeating. (Well, maybe not everything has changed.) And though we tend to imagine Victorian-era Christmases as sentimental gatherings around the candlelit tree, blazing hearth, and festive punchbowl, the 19th-century evidence tells us quite otherwise. Drawing from his extensive collection of antique postcards, greeting cards, advertising giveaways, and other ephemera, author John Grossman presents a picture of Christmas past that, frankly, looks a lot more like Halloween. Broomstick-riding witches and vampire bat-borne cupids deliver New Year's greetings. Fur-clad fairies gather 'round a campfire to roast their Christmas dinner--a huge dead rat. And Saint Nicholas? He's that skinny guy in the bishop robes who arrives with his dark companion, the Devil-like Krampus brandishing switches to punish the badly behaved. With "Christmas Curiosities," STC wishes you a very merry, very scary Christmas. Bookseller Inventory # AA99781584796992 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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