Consuming Passions by Flanders, Judith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Dedication Epigraph Table of Contents Preface 1 From Arcadia to Arcade: The Great Exhibition 2 'A Nation of Shopkeepers': The Eighteenth-Century Shop 3 The Ladies' (and Gents') Paradise: The Nineteenth-Century Shop 4 Read All About It: Buying the News 5 Penny a Line: Books and the Reading Public 6 To Travel Hopefully: Holidays and Tourism 7 The Greatest Shows on Earth? 8 Penny Plain, Tuppence Coloured: The Theatrical Spectacular 9 Going for a Song: The Music Market 10 Going, Going: Art and the Market 11 Sporting Life 12 Visions of Sugar Plums: A Christmas Coda Appendices APPENDIX 1 Currency APPENDIX 2 Department stores (and other large shops) and their opening dates APPENDIX 3 Holidays 'kept at the Exchequer, Stamp-Office, Excise-Office, Custom-House, Bank, East-India, and South-Sea House' Select Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgements About the Author Praise By the same Author Copyright About the Publisher

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