Bibliograph

Consuming passions, leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain, Judith Flanders

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Consuming passions, leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain, Judith Flanders

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-548) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Consuming passions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

68769976

Responsibility statement

Judith Flanders

Sub title

leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain

Summary

Consuming Passions tells the fascinating story of how, over two centuries, leisure became an industry, offering a cornucopia of entertainment for a new mass audience, as demand was fuelled by newspapers, by advertising, by publicity--all eighteenth-century creations

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator