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

By: Fromer, Julie E, 1970- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008]Copyright date: �2008Description: 1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780821442197 (e-book).Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/355 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index.

"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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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