A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Julie E. Fromer (Author), Jane Arian (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher)

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Tea-drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century’s perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a luxury; it was seen as masculine as well as feminine; it symbolized the exotic and the domestic; and it represented both moderation and excess.

Tea was flexible enough to accommodate and to mark subtle differences in social status, to mediate these differences between individuals, and to serve as a shared cultural symbol within England. In A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England, Julie E. Fromer analyzes tea histories, advertisements, and nine Victorian novels, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Wuthering Heights, and Portrait of a Lady.

Fromer demonstrates how tea functions within the literature as an arbiter of taste and middle-class respectability, aiding in the determination of class status and moral position. She reveals the way in which social identity and character are inextricably connected in Victorian ideology as seen through the ritual of tea.

Drawing from the fields of literary studies, cultural studies, history, and anthropology, A Necessary Luxury offers in-depth analysis of both visual and textual representations of the commodity and the ritual that was tea in 19th-century England.

The book is published by Ohio University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

“This book is a genuine tour de force.” (Deborah Denenholz Morse, author of Women in Trollope’s Palliser Novels)

“Anyone who opens Julie Fromer's absorbing book may never read a Victorian novel in quite the same way again.” (Mansfield News Journal)

“A well-researched history of the development of a habit inextricably woven into England’s national identity.” (Dickens Quarterly)

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13 hours and 24 minutes
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Julie E. Fromer
Narrator

Jane Arian
Audible release date

July 15 2020
Language

English
Publisher

University Press Audiobooks
ASIN

B08CY5JXDZ
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	13 hours and 24 minutes
Author	Julie E. Fromer
Narrator	Jane Arian
Audible.ca Release Date	July 15 2020
Publisher	University Press Audiobooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08CY5JXDZ
Best Sellers Rank	#222,094 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #773 in Coffee & Tea (Books) #830 in Food & Wine (Audible Books & Originals) #958 in Great Britain History

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judy hinshaw

Good history

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 8, 2014

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Enjoyed the writing and research of this book. Interesting, informative and well- documented. I would recommend this for anyone interested in British history.

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Chilton

good book for those interested in history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2013

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This is a good book for those interested in history. I ended up returning this book because it was not what I was looking for at the time. I wanted a recipe book plus some background information. This is a very good, detailed, scholarly, historical treatise on the use of tea, ceremonies developed for and surrounding tea, and the social ramifications of tea (beverage and ceremonies) in Victorian England. For the history buff this would be a great read. For my purposes at the time I bought and returned it, it was not what I needed.

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