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A Necessary Luxury : Tea in Victorian England.
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press,
2008.
©2008 |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (393 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821442197 0821442198 |