A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England / Julie E. Fromer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821442197 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/355 22
LOC classification:
  • PR461 .F76 2008eb
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Contents:
"A typically English brew" : Victorian histories of tea and representations of English national identity -- Mediating class distinctions : the middle-class Englishness of drinking tea -- "Tea first hand" : gender and middle-class domesticity at the tea table -- Class, connection, and communitas : Wuthering Heights, North and South, and Alice's adventures in wonderland -- Gender, sexuality, and the tea table : David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and Orley Farm -- Tea drinking, nostalgia, and domestic entrapment : Hester, The portrait of a lady, and Jude the obscure.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index.

"A typically English brew" : Victorian histories of tea and representations of English national identity -- Mediating class distinctions : the middle-class Englishness of drinking tea -- "Tea first hand" : gender and middle-class domesticity at the tea table -- Class, connection, and communitas : Wuthering Heights, North and South, and Alice's adventures in wonderland -- Gender, sexuality, and the tea table : David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and Orley Farm -- Tea drinking, nostalgia, and domestic entrapment : Hester, The portrait of a lady, and Jude the obscure.

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