Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Marling, Karal Ann
From Steven G. Jennings, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since May 2, 2001
From Steven G. Jennings, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since May 2, 2001
About this Item
Clean and tight copy with dj protected in mylar. Small, light smudge on fore edge. Seller Inventory # 006620
Bibliographic Details
Title: Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's ...
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
About this title
Viewing Christmas through the media of mass culture--engravings and lithographs, magazine fiction, pictorial ads, news photos, cards, and movies--Marling tells us how the beloved Christmas tree grew out of a much-reprinted image of Queen Victoria and her family gathered around a decorated fir; how Santa Claus lost his provincial Dutch character and turned into the jolly old soul we know; how Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol borrowed from Washington Irving's imaginings of what Christmas must have been like in Merrie Olde England; and how the holiday, balancing between the private and public realms, conferred a central and defining role on women.
A celebration of the visual culture of the season, Merry Christmas! offers captivating evidence that Christmas in America is primarily a secular celebration of abundance, goodwill, and familial identity, expressed in a multitude of material ways.
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