Imagining Christmas: Rediscovering the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Christmas Story
edited by Monika Elbert and Thomas Ruys Smith
contributions by Monika Elbert, Jessica Allen Hanssen, Noga Inbar, James Inkster, Maura Ives, Vaughn Joy, Laura Laffrado, Angela Rabin, Thomas Ruys Smith, Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, David Anderson, Kassie Jo Baron, Rita Bode, Sarah Clere and Stéphanie Durrans
introduction by Monika Elbert and Thomas Ruys Smith
University of Alabama Press, 2026
Cloth: 978-0-8173-2296-0 | Paper: 978-0-8173-6309-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-9649-7
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection is the first to examine the development of Anglo-American Christmas literature across the entire nineteenth century. This volume brings together new scholarship on poems, songs, short stories, and novels by both canonical and lesser-known authors. Combining original research with fresh critical perspectives, Imagining Christmas reframes the Christmas story as a vital and adaptable literary genre. The collection offers an important new contribution to nineteenth-century and transatlantic literary studies while illuminating the historical roots of traditions and ideas that continue to define Christmas today.
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