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Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas
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Item specifics
- ISBN
- 9781584796992
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Stewart, Tabori & Chang
- Topic
- Holidays (Non-Religious), Postcards, Holidays / Christmas & Advent, Subjects & Themes / Religious
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Oh, by gosh, by golly. It's time for . . . rowdy bands of drunkards roaming the streets, lighting firecrackers, and firing off guns? Gangs of masked youths invading people's houses, demanding food, drink, and money--and threatening to break the windows (or worse) unless they're given what they want? Welcome to Christmas, circa 1800. Yes, the season of light, joy, and gift-giving was once regarded as a time of darkness, danger, and dissipation--and celebrated with all-too-public displays of noisemaking, inebriation, and gluttonous overeating. (Well, maybe not everything has changed.) And though we tend to imagine Victorian-era Christmases as sentimental gatherings around the candlelit tree, blazing hearth, and festive punchbowl, the 19th-century evidence tells us quite otherwise. Drawing from his extensive collection of antique postcards, greeting cards, advertising giveaways, and other ephemera, author John Grossman presents a picture of Christmas past that, frankly, looks a lot more like Halloween. Broomstick-riding witches and vampire bat-borne cupids deliver New Year's greetings. Fur-clad fairies gather 'round a campfire to roast their Christmas dinner--a huge dead rat. And Saint Nicholas? He's that skinny guy in the bishop robes who arrives with his dark companion, the Devil-like Krampus brandishing switches to punish the badly behaved. With Christmas Curiosities , STC wishes you a very merry, very scary Christmas.
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Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
ISBN-10
1584796995
ISBN-13
9781584796992
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63185188
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Holidays (Non-Religious), Postcards, Holidays / Christmas & Advent, Subjects & Themes / Religious
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.9in
Length
7in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Christmas Curiosities : Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas
Lc Classification Number
Gt4985.G77 2008
Grade from
Eighth Grade
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Copyright Date
2008
Format
Hardcover
Lccn
2007-040771
Dewey Decimal
394.2663
Intended Audience
Trade
Publication Year
2008
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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