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Merry Christmas! / Karal Ann Marling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674040625
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.2663/0973
LOC classification:
  • GT4985.A1 -- M37 2000eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Wrapping Paper Unwrapped -- 2 The Christmas Business -- 3 Window Shopping -- 4 Olde Christmas -- 5 O Tannenbaum -- 6 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town -- 7 Somebody Else’s Christmas -- 8 Thinking of You at Christmas -- 9 Dreaming of a White Christmas -- Postscript -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674040625

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Wrapping Paper Unwrapped -- 2 The Christmas Business -- 3 Window Shopping -- 4 Olde Christmas -- 5 O Tannenbaum -- 6 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town -- 7 Somebody Else’s Christmas -- 8 Thinking of You at Christmas -- 9 Dreaming of a White Christmas -- Postscript -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mrz 2021)