Halloween : from Pagan ritual to party night / Nicholas Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Nicholas, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Halloween--Great Britain--History.

Halloween.

Halloween--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Halloween' explores the holiday's origins and early development in the British Isles, its transition to North America as an ethnic festival and its subsequent place in popular, mass culture as a consumer rite and ritual of transgression.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. SAMHAIN: and the Celtic Origins of Halloween; 2. FESTIVE RITES: Halloween in the British Isles; 3. COMING OVER: Halloween in North America; 4. RAZOR IN THE APPLE: The Struggle for a Safe and Sane Halloween, c. 1920-1990; 5. HALLOWEEN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD; 6. STEPPING OUT; 7. BORDER CROSSINGS; 8. HALLOWEEN AT THE MILLENNIUM; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771363-7

0-19-028720-9

1-280-53208-4

0-19-534910-5

0-19-530298-2

OCLC:

70738470