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1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Tea -- England.
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Tea in literature.
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National characteristics, English -- History -- 19th century.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fromer, Julie E. Necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008] xiv, 375 pages ; 24 cm 9780821418291 (OCoLC)ocn230198791 (DLC)10904202 |
| ISBN |
9780821418284 (alk. paper) |
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0821418289 (alk. paper) |
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9780821418291 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0821418297 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780821442197 (electronic bk.) |
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