Christmas Past : An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America /

"As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Christmas > United States > History > 19th century.
Christmas in literature.
American prose literature > 19th century.
Christmas > Literary collections.
Christmas stories, American.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Old Christmas, new Christmas
  • Christmas (1819) / Washington Irving
  • Christmas from The pearl, or, Affection's gift (1829)
  • Excerpt from Retrospect of Western travel (1938) / Harriet Martineau
  • Sentiment, slavery, and war at Christmas
  • Christmas, or, The good fairy (1850) / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Merry Christmas!--Happy Christmas! (1853) / Fanny Fern
  • Christmas in Slavery
  • Excerpt from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1845) / Frederick Douglass
  • Excerpt from Twelve years a slave (1853) / Solomon Northup
  • Christmas festivities (1863) / Harriet Jacobs
  • A hospital Christmas (1864) / Louisa May Alcott
  • Excerpt from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) / Margaret Sidney
  • Christmas realities
  • The promise of the dawn: a Christmas story (1863) / Rebecca Harding Davis
  • How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar (1873) / Bret Harte
  • An English New Year (January 1879) / Henry James
  • Christmas every day (1892) / William Dean Howells
  • Christmas Jenny (1891) / Mary Wilkins Freeman
  • Little Miss Sophie (1899) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • Wrestling with the reason for the season
  • Excerpt from Ben Hur: a tale of the Christ (1880) / Lew Wallace
  • Miracle joyeux (1898) / Frank Norris
  • A Christmas sermon (1891) and What I want for Christmas (1897) / Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Happy Christmas to all?
  • Excerpt from The ghost dance war (1890) / Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Rabbi Eliezer's Christmas (1899) / Abraham Cahan
  • General Washington: a Christmas story (1900) / Pauline Hopkins
  • Merry Christmas in the tenements (1897) / Jacob A. Riis.

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