Shopping as Comedy: A Victorian Scrapbook

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-40800-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged in hand-drawn domestic spaces and embellished with watercolour details. At the foot of each page is a
handwritten running text, written by an unknown Victorian author, that provides a narrative to explain the accompanying images. The album also includes four original short stories, interspersed by twenty-three vignettes, which, like advertisements in
a magazine, echo and reinforce themes in the surrounding content. The album highlights issues of concern to women at the fin de siècle: romance, marriage, shopping, and house decoration.

The satirical commentary on late Victorian shopping and commodity culture provides a fascinating insight into the interests and responses of consumers during this period. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary and advertising history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Easley, Alexis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Jeremy Parrett, Manchester Metropolitan University

Introduction by Alexis Easley, University of St. Thomas

Bibliography

A Victorian Scrapbook

Appendix: Transcription of the Scrapbook Text

Über Autor(innen)

Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.