A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England /

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Main Author: Fromer, Julie E., 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008]
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Table of 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.