Holy Day, Holiday

The American Sunday

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

AvAlexis McCrossen

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The mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost comical today in an era of seven-day convenience and twenty-four-hour shopping. But the issue of the meaning of Sunday is one that has historically given rise to a wide range of strong emotions and pitted a surprising variety of social, religious, and class interests against one another. Whether observed as a day for rest, or time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week.Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the day in the United States since 1800. She investigates cultural phenomena such as blue laws and the Sunday newspaper, alongside representations of Sunday in the popular arts. Holy Day, Holiday attends to the history of religion, as well as the histories of labor, leisure, and domesticity.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-05-16
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801434174

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McCrossen's fine new book gives us a solidly synthetic history of the American Sunday.... Her work is made all the more rewarding by her use of a valuable breadth of primary material, ranging from sheet music to diary entires to Currier and Ives illustrations to bicycle periodicals such as Bicycle World and The Wheel.... McCrossen offers an engaging treatment of changing notions of American rest, leisure, and religious devotion.- Paul Gutjahr (Journal of American History) This book by Alexis McCrossen is a complicated, ambitious study of Sunday as a symbol and an institution.... The book is engagingly written and fun to read. Most readers will find threads of their own history in this melange of 'acceptable' Sunday activities. Quite likely, the threads will include both holy day and holiday.- Janet Forsythe Fishburn (American Historical Review) This compact, elegant, and thoroughly researched volume is the first full-scale cultural history of Sunday observance in the United States. Holy Day, Holiday conveys a vivid sense of the diversity of meanings attached to Sunday throughout American history.... The book's strength lies in the richness of its narrative.- Michael J. McClymond (Journal of the Early Republic) Alexis McCrossen offers the most accessible account available of Sunday's transformation in America from a day of rest to a day of leisure.- Douglas A. Sweeney (Religious Studies Review) Ms. McCrossen's fascinating cultural history of Sunday in America mainly covers the 19th-century struggle between conservative Sabbatarians who wanted to keep Sunday as the Lord's day— as a day of Christian worship— and liberal Protestants who wanted to turn it into a day of cultural uplift.- Adam Wolfson (Wall Street Journal) Whether it is a day for rest, worship, family time or work overtime, Sunday has distinguished itself on the American calendar. McCrossen considers blue laws and the Sunday paper, and much more in this evocation of 200 years of highly emotional social, religious and class disputes over the meaning of the day.(Publishers Weekly)