Thomas Ruys Smith
@thomasruyssmith.com
Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
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Hooray! Thanks for the help!
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Hooray! Thanks for the help!
Ah thanks! All props to @bhousepress.bsky.social!
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ah thanks! All props to @bhousepress.bsky.social!
Awesome that it reached you already! And thanks!
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Awesome that it reached you already! And thanks!
Thanks for the mention!
October 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Thanks for the mention!
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And my book, Selling Out Santa, for the history and film lovers looking for the cross over event of the season, explores the tumultuous 1946-1961 post-war, early Cold War period in Hollywood via a case study exploring the political, and cultural changes in the Christmas films of the long 1950s:
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
And my book, Selling Out Santa, for the history and film lovers looking for the cross over event of the season, explores the tumultuous 1946-1961 post-war, early Cold War period in Hollywood via a case study exploring the political, and cultural changes in the Christmas films of the long 1950s:
Reposted by Thomas Ruys Smith
. @thomasruyssmith.com's Searching for Santa Claus is a sugar plum-filled dream for the academics and Christmas connoisseurs among us as an unmatched, first if its kind anthology tracing the origins and evolutions of the icon:
Searching for Santa Claus by Thomas Ruys Smith | boiler-house-press
"Searching for Santa is both a lovely gift book for serious Santa fans and an important resource for anyone studying the history of American children's literature.”- Linda Raedisch, author of The Old ...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
. @thomasruyssmith.com's Searching for Santa Claus is a sugar plum-filled dream for the academics and Christmas connoisseurs among us as an unmatched, first if its kind anthology tracing the origins and evolutions of the icon: