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

Author/creator Fromer, Julie E., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxiv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Tea--England.
Tea in literature.
National characteristics, English--History. --19th century.
England--Social life and customs. --19th century.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-363) and index.
LCCN 2008039562
ISBN9780821418284 (alk. paper)
ISBN0821418289 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780821418291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0821418297 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 461 .F76 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold