A Necessary Luxury : Tea in Victorian England.
Author / Creator: | Fromer, Julie E., 1970- author. |
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Imprint: | Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2008. ©2008 |
Description: | 1 online resource (393 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275790 |
Summary: | Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century's perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a luxury; it was seen as masculine as well as feminine; it symbolized the exotic and the domestic; and it represented both moderation and excess. Tea was flexible enough to accommodate and to mark subtle differences in social status, to mediate these differences between individuals, and to serve as a shared cultural symbol within England. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 pages) |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780821442197 0821442198 9780821418284 0821418289 9780821418291 0821418297 |