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A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England

Title
A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England / Julie E. Fromer.
Author
Fromer, Julie E., 1970-
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.

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Description
xiv, 375 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-363) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 09-1122
ISBN
  • 9780821418284 (alk. paper)
  • 0821418289 (alk. paper)
  • 9780821418291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0821418297 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9788821418284 (alk. paper)
  • 9788821418291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008039562
OCLC
230198791
Author
Fromer, Julie E., 1970-
Title
A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England / Julie E. Fromer.
Imprint
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-363) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-1122
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