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Book A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain  1875 1914

Download or read book A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875 1914 written by Elizabeth Driver and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1989 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mrs Beeton s Book of Household Management

Download or read book Mrs Beeton s Book of Household Management written by Isabella Beeton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This almost forgotten classic text of Victorian middle-class identity offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. Alternatively frugal and fashionable, this book highlights the concerns of the growing Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. Illustrations.

Book In the Service of Empire

Download or read book In the Service of Empire written by Fae Dussart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to newspaper articles, official papers and court records, Dussart explores the strategic nature of the relationship, the connection between imperialism, domesticity and a master/servant paradigm that was deployed in different ways by varied actors often neglected in the historical record. Positioned outside the family but inside the private place of the home, 'the domestic servant' was often the foil against which 19th-century contemporaries worked out class, race and gender identities across metropole and colony, creating those places in the process. The role of domestic servants in empire thus lay not only in the labour they undertook, but also in the way the servant-master relationship constituted ground that helped other power relations to be imagined and contested. Dussart explores the domestic service relationship in 19th-century Britain and India, considering how ideas about servants and their masters and/or mistresses spanned imperial space, and shaped peoples and places within it.

Book The Victorian Baby in Print

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tamara S. Wagner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-15
  • ISBN : 0192599984
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Victorian Baby in Print written by Tamara S. Wagner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture explores the representation of babyhood in Victorian Britain. The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture, this critical analysis discusses the changing roles of an iconic figure. A close look at the wide-ranging portrayal of infants and infant care not only reveals how divergent and often contradictory Victorian attitudes to infancy really were, but also challenges persistent clichés surrounding the literary baby that emerged or were consolidated at the time, and which are largely still with us. Drawing on a variety of texts, including novels by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, and Charlotte Yonge, as well as parenting magazines of the time, childrearing manuals, and advertisements, this study analyses how their representations of infancy and infant care utilised and shaped an iconography that has become definitional of the Victorian age itself. The familiar clichés surrounding the Victorian baby have had a lasting impact on the way we see both the Victorians and babies, and a critical reconsideration might also prompt a self-critical reconsideration of the still burgeoning market for infant care advice today.

Book A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain  1800 1914

Download or read book A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain 1800 1914 written by Dena Attar and published by Prospect Books (UK). This book was released on 1987 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon W. Propas
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-06-17
  • ISBN : 1317216482
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Victorian Studies written by Sharon W. Propas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.

Book The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain  Volume 6  1830   1914

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 6 1830 1914 written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.

Book Time  Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Time Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain written by M. Damkjær and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.

Book Resource Guide for Food Writers

Download or read book Resource Guide for Food Writers written by Gary Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resource Guide for Food Writers represents the first comprehensive listing of resources for food writers and culinary enthusiasts. A feast for all who love food, it is both a research tool for finding out facts about food and a guide to food writing. Author Gary Allen presents an impressive menu of relevant resources, ranging from specialty libraries and booksellers to periodicals, organizations, and web sites. Allen goes on to provide genuine guidance on how writers can utilize those resources for writing about food and getting published. This authoritative reference and handbook is essential for every epicurean who wants to learn more about food, from the food­service professional to the ambitious home gourmet.

Book A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

Download or read book A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry written by Catherine L. Futter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial developments resulted in a number of benefits from a growing middle class to efficiency, convenience and innovation across a range of fields from engineering to architecture. Alongside these improvements, the century began with the extended period of the Napoleonic Wars and was further disrupted by rebellions and revolutions both within Europe and in India, South America and other parts of the world. Slavery was abolished and urbanization increased dramatically. These myriad developments were reflected throughout the period in the proliferation of types of furniture, along with their categorization as 'industrial art' at the international exhibitions and world fairs and the increasingly adventurous range of materials that were sometimes used in their construction. Nonetheless, a strong antiquarian/historicist strand also prompted interest in the revival of past styles in areas of art and design, including furniture. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.

Book Art  Culture  and Cuisine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phyllis Pray Bober
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2001-06
  • ISBN : 0226062546
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Art Culture and Cuisine written by Phyllis Pray Bober and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we define, prepare and consume food can detail a full range of social expression. Examining the subject through the dual lens of archaeology and art history, this book argues that cuisine as an art form deserves a higher reputation.

Book Food  Drink  and the Written Word in Britain  1820 1945

Download or read book Food Drink and the Written Word in Britain 1820 1945 written by Mary Addyman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into three parts, essays focus on the food scandals of the early Victorian era, the decadence and greed of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and the effects of austerity caused by two world wars.

Book The Pocket

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Burman
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-24
  • ISBN : 0300253745
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Pocket written by Barbara Burman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 “A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.”—Roberta Smith’s “Top Art Books of 2019,” The New York Times This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women’s everyday lives—from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen—and to explore their consumption practices, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. A wealth of evidence reveals unexpected facets of the past, bringing women’s stories into intimate focus. “What particularly interests Burman and Fennetaux is the way in which women of all classes have historically used these tie-on pockets as a supplementary body part to help them negotiate their way through a world that was not built to suit them.”—Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian “A brilliant book.”—Ulinka Rublack, Times Literary Supplement

Book Antiquarian Book Monthly Review

Download or read book Antiquarian Book Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Consuming Angels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Anne Loeb
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1994-10-13
  • ISBN : 0195358872
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Consuming Angels written by Lori Anne Loeb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timid and retiring, the Victorian housewife was an "angel in the house," or so says the stereotype. But when this angel picked up a popular magazine--The Lady, for instance--she saw in its advertisements images of Grecian goddesses, women warriors, queens, actresses, adventurers. These arrestingly sexual and surprisingly powerful images are the subject of Consuming Angels, a major examination of how Victorian ads shaped social values. Stylishly written and featuring 73 reproductions, this book shows how ads used the hedonistic aspects of Victorian culture to sell their wares, glorified consumerism, and mythologized the middle-class life. Images of aggressive women, Loeb shows, played well to both men and women. And ultimately, these ads helped usher in the twentieth century with the creation of a new community: the community of consumers.

Book The Cambridge World History of Food

Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Food written by Kenneth F. Kiple and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume set which traces the history of food and nutrition from the beginning of human life on earth through the present.