London Restaurant, 1840-1914

This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The restaurant played host to many of the most significant societal changes to occur in this period: technological advances, health regulations, changing gender roles, immigration, and the multicultural dimension to London life.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Foregrounding the Restaurant


• 1: Finding the Restaurant


• 2: Running the Restaurant


• 3: Waiting in the Restaurant


• 4: Health and Regulation in the Restaurant


• 5: Gastro-cosmopolitanism and the Restaurant


• 6: Dining in the Restaurant


• Epilogue: Remembering the Restaurant


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Brenda Assael was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University and the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Circus and Victorian Society (2005), and has published widely on the intersections between culture, society, commerce, and politics in nineteenth-century Britain.

Summary

This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The restaurant played host to many of the most significant societal changes to occur in this period: technological advances, health regulations, changing gender roles, immigration, and the multicultural dimension to London life.

Additional text

full of rich and original research

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Assael, Brenda (Lecturer in Modern History Assael, Brenda (Senior Fellow At the Institute of Assael, Assael Brenda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780192874993
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287499-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards