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Shopping as comedy : a Victorian scrapbook / edited by Alexis Easley ; with a foreword by Jeremy Parrett

Published
London : Routledge, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxviii, 152 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Easley, Alexis, 1963- and Parrett, Jeremy
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Contents
Foreword by Jeremy Parrett, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityIntroduction by Alexis Easley, University of St. ThomasBibliographyA Victorian Scrapbook Appendix: Transcription of the Scrapbook Text
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9781032725864 (electronic bk.)
1032725869 (electronic bk.)
9781032408002
9781040021866 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040021867 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781040021859 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040021859 (electronic bk. : PDF)
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