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Consuming Passions - Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

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  • Harper Perennial

  • Paru le : 01/10/2009
A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men... > Lire la suite
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A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling 'The Victorian House'. Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork - a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot drink.
That was what England was like in the early eighteenth century. Yet by the close of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution had brought with it not just factories, railways, mines and machines but also fashion, travel, leisure and pleasure. Leisure became an industry - a cornucopia of excitement for the masses - and it was spread by newspapers, advertising, promotions and publicity - all of which were eighteenth-century creations.
It was Josiah Wedgwood and his colleagues who invented money-back guarantees, free delivery and celebrity endorsements. New technology such as the railways brought audiences to ever-more-elaborate extravaganzas, whether it was theatrical spectaculars with breathtaking pyrotechnics and hundreds of extras - 'hippodramas' recreating the battle of Waterloo - or the Great Exhibition itself, proudly displaying 'the products of all quarters of the globe' under twenty-two acres of the sparkling 'Crystal Palace'. In 'Consuming Passions', the bestselling author of 'The Victorian House' explores this dramatic revolution in science, technology and industry - and how a world of thrilling sensation, lavish spectacle and unimaginable theatricality was born.

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  • Date de parution : 01/10/2009
  • Editeur : Harper Perennial
  • ISBN : 978-0-00-734762-9
  • EAN : 9780007347629
  • Format : ePub
  • Nb. de pages : 400 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages : 400
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos de l'auteur

Biographie de Judith Flanders

Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling 'The Victorian House' (2003) and 'Consuming Passions' (2006), as well as the critically acclaimed 'A Circle of Sisters' (2001) - a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin - which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. She is a frequent contributor to the 'Daily Telegraph', the 'Guardian', the 'Evening Standard', and the 'Times Literary Supplement'.
She lives in London.
Judith Flanders - Consuming Passions - Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain.
Consuming Passions. Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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