Christmas
A History
Seiten
2012
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78076-361-3 (ISBN)
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78076-361-3 (ISBN)
Covers various themes that contribute to modern Christmas: its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the need for a touchstone with the past in an age of rapid expansion and thus the myth of Merrie England; and the revival of English music: in short, all the elements making up the modern Christmas.
This book provides an original perspective on the West's most enduring social and cultural institution. The author covers all the vital themes contributing to the modern Christmas: its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the need for a touchstone with the past in an age of rapid expansion and thus the myth of Merrie England; and the revival of English music: in short, all the elements making up the modern Christmas.
This book provides an original perspective on the West's most enduring social and cultural institution. The author covers all the vital themes contributing to the modern Christmas: its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the need for a touchstone with the past in an age of rapid expansion and thus the myth of Merrie England; and the revival of English music: in short, all the elements making up the modern Christmas.
Mark Connelly is Reuters Lecturer in Media and Propaganda History at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Englishness of Christmas
John Bull and the Christmas Pantomime
The Christmas Carol Revival and the English Musical Renaissance
Christmas in the British Empire
The BBC and the Broadcasting of the English Christmas
Cinema and Representations of the English Christmas
The English Christmas and the Growth of a Shopping Culture
Epilogue: The English Christmas from 1953 to the Present Day
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.11.2012 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8pp bw plates |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 328 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78076-361-1 / 1780763611 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78076-361-3 / 9781780763613 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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