Main entry:

Flanders, Judith.

Title & Author:

Consuming passions : leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain / Judith Flanders.

Publication:

London : HarperPress, 2006.

Description:

xvii, 604 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-548) and index.
From Arcadia to Arcade: the great exhibition -- 'A nation of shopkeepers': the eighteenth-century shop -- The ladies' (and gents') paradise: the nineteenth-century shop -- Read all about it: buying the news -- Penny a line: books and the reading public -- To travel hopefully: holidays and tourism -- The greatest shows on earth? -- Penny plain, tuppence coloured: the theatrical spectacular -- Going for a song: the music market -- Going, going: art and the market -- Sporting life -- Visions of sugar plums: a Christmas coda.

Summary:

Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife and fork. That's what England was like in the early 18th century. Yet by the close of the 19th, the Industrial Revolution had brought with it not just factories, railways and machines but also brought fashion, travel, leisure and pleasure.

ISBN:

9780007172955 (hbk.)
0007172958 (hbk.)

Subject:

Leisure Great Britain History 19th century.
Loisir Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Leisure.
Manners and customs.
Freizeitgestaltung
Freizeitverhalten
Vrije tijd.
Freizeit
Verbrauch
Verhalten
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.
Grande-Bretagne Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1837-1901 (Victoria)
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Great Britain Social life and customs

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249059
Call No.: BIB 178634
Status: Available