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The Wedding Present

Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

By: Dr Louise Purbrick

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The Wedding Present

Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

By: Dr Louise Purbrick

In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Focusing on gift-giving in Britain from 1945 to the present, comparative context is provided by material from North America and Europe. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, the book makes significant historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption. It also re-evaluates consumption theory as well as examining the methodology of recent studies in consumption and domesticity, pressing for a more rigorous approach to the use of case studies. By considering how the specific contexts in which consumption occurs, such as married domesticity, can limit possible versions of selfhood, The Wedding Present tests the assumption that consuming creates individual identities. Thus, the book argues, consumption cannot be isolated as an explanation of individual or social formation.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472440242

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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

By: Dr Catherine Delafield

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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

By: Dr Catherine Delafield

Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield analyzes five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins in the context of periodical publication. Her book addresses the material conditions of production, illustrates the collective and collaborative creation of the text, and offers fresh readings of novels that appeared in Household Words, Cornhill Magazine, Good Words, All the Year Round and Cassell’s Magazine.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472450906

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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

By: Dr Shih-Wen Chen

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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

By: Dr Shih-Wen Chen

In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147240341X

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9781472403414

Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and their Role in Houses Open to the Public

By: Dr Margaret Ponsonby

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Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and their Role in Houses Open to the Public

By: Dr Margaret Ponsonby

Taking National Trust properties as its central focus, this book examines three interlocking themes to examine the role of historic textiles. It looks at houses with preserved contents together with the reasons for individual families choosing this lifestyle, the role of the National Trust as both guardian and interpreter of these houses and their collections, and finally, the influence of textiles to contribute to the appearance of interiors, and their physical attributes that carry historical resonances of the past.

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1472424670

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9781472424679

Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street

The Print Culture of a Victorian Street

By: Dr Mary L Shannon

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Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street

The Print Culture of a Victorian Street

By: Dr Mary L Shannon

Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, and the serial edition of London Labour and the London Poor were all published from Wellington Street off the Strand, which housed the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds and Henry Mayhew. Shannon examines the implications of their close proximity for the editors themselves, for nineteenth-century publishing, and for the reading public.

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1472442040

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Book's by Dr Louise Purbrick

The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present

Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and their Role in Houses Open to the Public

Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and their Role in Houses Open to the Public

Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street

Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street

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