Victorian Christmas in print
By: Tara Moore.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives & letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230616547
Subjects: Christmas in literature; Christmas stories, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature; Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Christmas -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Table of contents: title: Books for Christmas, 1822-1860; title: How Victorians read Christmas; title: How Mr. Punch stole Christmas: the evolution of the holiday in periodicals; title: Ghost stories at Christmas; title: The expansion of Christmas consumerism: gifts and commodities; title: The poetry of Christmas; title: Modern marketing of the Victorian Christmas.