Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
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Merry Christmas!: Celebrating Americas Greatest Holiday
EN USISBN: 0674003187 bzw. 9780674003187, in Englisch, Harvard University Press, gebraucht.
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americas,art,christian books and bibles,christmas,customs and traditions,history,holidays,humor and entertainment,politics and social sciences,pop culture, Merry Christmas! : Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become, showing us the provenance and significance of each of its essential parts: the decorated trees and holiday lights, the cards and gifts and wrapping papers, the toy villages and store displays and Macy's holiday parade, Bing Crosby and Santa Claus. 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, A.
americas,art,christian books and bibles,christmas,customs and traditions,history,holidays,humor and entertainment,politics and social sciences,pop culture, Merry Christmas! : Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become, showing us the provenance and significance of each of its essential parts: the decorated trees and holiday lights, the cards and gifts and wrapping papers, the toy villages and store displays and Macy's holiday parade, Bing Crosby and Santa Claus. 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, A.
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Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
EN HC NWISBN: 9780674003187 bzw. 0674003187, in Englisch, Harvard University Press, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
Merry-Christmas~~Karal-Ann-Marling, Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, Hardcover.
Merry-Christmas~~Karal-Ann-Marling, Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, Hardcover.
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