Consuming Passions : Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
Book No. : 028000
Author: Flanders, Judith
ISBN: 0007172958
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
PublishingDate: 2006
Publisher: Harper Press
Availability: In Stock
Price: £10.00
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 604pp.
A detailed study of how, over two centuries, the 18th and 19th, leisure became an industry for a new mass audience, the consumtion of goods by the masses took off, and how technology made such enormous changes for people. Illustrated.