Christmas : a social history

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Christmas : a social history

Mark Connelly

I.B. Tauris, 1999

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Bibliography: p. [247]-256

Includes index

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内容説明

This is a study of the themes which have contributed to the modern Christmas as an icon of cultural and social history. Among those themes are its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the liberal values at the heart of Anglo-American political, cultural and social life; the need for a touchstone with the past in a age of rapid expansion, and thus the myth of Merrie England; the link with imperial expansion and the position of the mother country; the revival of English music - perhaps the greatest age of church music and carols since the 14th century; printing and publishing and the increase in literacy; shopping and consumerism; and broadcasting.

目次

  • 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.

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