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1 online resource (393 pages) |
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Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tea, a Necessary Luxury; 1: "A Typically English Brew"; 2: Mediating Class Distinctions; 3: "Tea First Hand"; 4: Class, Connection, and Communitas; 5: Gender, Sexuality, and the Tea Table; 6: Tea Drinking, Nostalgia, and Domestic Entrapment; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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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. In A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England</e |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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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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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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HISTORY -- General.
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Manners and customs
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National characteristics, English
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Tea
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Tea in literature
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Literatur
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Tee Motiv
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Tee
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Te -- historia -- England -- 1800-talet.
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Te i litteraturen.
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Nationalkaraktär -- historia -- England -- 1800-talet.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043324
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England
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Englisch.
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England -- vardagsliv och traditioner -- historia -- 1800-talet.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008039562 |
| ISBN |
9780821442197 |
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0821442198 |
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