Consumer rites : the buying & selling of American holidays / Leigh Eric Schmidt.
By: Schmidt, Leigh Eric
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TextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xvi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691029806 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Holidays -- Economic aspects -- United States | United States -- Religious life and customs | United States -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 394.2/6973 LOC classification: GT4986.A1 | S35 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-358) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-358) and index.
Time is money. Church festivals and commercial fairs : the peddling of festivity -- "Enterprise holds carnival while poetry keeps Lent" : from Sabbatarian discipline to romantic longing -- A commercial revolution : national holidays and the consumer culture -- St. Valentine's day greeting. St. Valentine's pilgrimage from Christian martyr to patron of love -- The handmade and the ready-made : of puzzle purses, chapbooks, and the valentine vogue -- Remaking the holiday's rituals : the marketing of valentines, 1840-1860 -- Mock valentines : a private charivari -- "A meaner sort of merchandize" or, "A pleasure without alloy"? : the new fashion contested and celebrated -- Expanding holiday trade : from confectioners' hearts to Hallmark cards -- Christmas bazaar. The rites of the New Year : revels, gifts, resolutions, and watch nights -- The birth of the Christmas market, 1820-1900 -- Shopping towards Bethlehem : women and the Victorian Christmas -- Christmas cathedrals : Wanamaker's and the consecration of the marketplace -- Magi, miracles, and Macy's : enchantment and disenchantment in the modern celebration -- Putting Christ in Christmas and keeping him there : the piety of protest --
Easter parade. "In the beauty of the lilies" : the art of church decoration and the art of window display -- Piety, fashion, and a spring promenade -- "A bewildering array of plastic forms" : Easter knickknacks and novelties -- Raining on the Easter parade : protest, subversion, and disquiet -- Mother's Day bouquet. Anna Jarvis and the churches : sources of a new celebration -- Commercial floriculture and the moral economy of flowers : the marketing of Mother's Day -- Pirates, profiteers and trespassers : negotiating the bounds of church, home, and marketplace -- The invention of Father's Day : the humbug of modern ritual -- Epilogue : April Fools? : trade, trickery, and modern celebration.