Holy Day, Holiday : The American Sunday / Alexis McCrossen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCrossen, Alexis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rest--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--20th century.

Rest.

Weekly rest-day--United States--History--20th century.

Weekly rest-day.

Sunday--History of doctrines--20th century.

Sunday.

Rest--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--19th century.

Weekly rest-day--United States--History--19th century.

Sunday--History of doctrines--19th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 209 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501728686

1501728687

OCLC:

1080549135