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Alexis McCrossenPublication Details
BookCornell University Press2000Availability
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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. She investigates cultural phenomena such as blue laws and the Sunday newspaper, alongside representations of Sunday in the popular arts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Sunday — History of doctrines — 19th century
- Weekly rest-day — United States — History — 19th century
- Rest — Religious aspects — Christianity — History of doctrines — 19th century
- Sunday — History of doctrines — 20th century
- Weekly rest-day — United states — History — 20th century
- Rest — Religious aspects — Christianity — History of doctrines — 20th century
Notes
- "Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experience 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."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction: A Method of Reckoning Time
- 1. What Is a Day of Rest?
- 2. A Sermon, Three Hundred Miles Long
- 3. Far from Civilized Country
- 4. The Sabbath for Man
- 5. Opening Up Sunday
- 6. The Sunday Drive
- 7. Putting the Dollar Mark on It
- 8. Daddy’s Day with Baby
- 9. What Is Rest?
- Epilogue: Crazy Sunday
ISBN
- 0801434173
- 9780801434174
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