Consuming Passions. Leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain
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- Author(s) Flanders, Judith
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 604pp; illus
- Publisher Harper
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with leisure and pleasure for an emerging mass market from the perspective of the business opportunities it created in the later 19th century. Covers wide ranging aspects with chapters including: '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 show 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'