A necessary luxury
Subtitle: tea in Victorian England
By: Julie E. Fromer.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0978821418284; 0978821418291
Subjects: 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 century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A typically English brew": Victorian histories of tea and representations of English national identity; title: Mediating class distinctions: the middle-class Englishness of drinking tea; title: "Tea first hand": gender and middle-class domesticity at the tea table; title: Class, connection, and communitas: Wuthering Heights, North and South, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; title: Gender, sexuality, and the tea table: David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and Orley Farm; title: Tea drinking, nostalgia, and domestic entrapment: Hester, The Portrait of a Lady, and Jude, the obscure.