Shopping for Pleasure : : Women in the Making of London's West End / / Erika Rappaport.
In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 20 halftones, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. "To Walk Alone in London"
- CHAPTER ONE. "The Halls of Temptation": The Universal Provider and the Pleasures of Suburbia
- CHAPTER TWO. The Trials of Consumption: Marriage, Law, and Women's Credit
- CHAPTER THREE. "Resting Places for Women Wayfarers": Feminism and the Comforts of the Public Sphere
- CHAPTER FOUR. Metropolitan Journeys: Shopping, Traveling, and Reading the West End
- CHAPTER FIVE. "A New Era of Shopping": An American Department Store in Edwardian London
- CHAPTER SIX. Acts of Consumption: Musical Comedy and the Desire of Exchange
- EPILOGUE. The Politics of Plate Glass
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX