Isabella Beeton Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Condition: New EAN: 9780199536337 ISBN: 9780199536337 Publisher: Oxford University Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 06/12/2008 Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 128mm Item Width: 44mm Author: Isabella Beeton Contributor: Nicola Humble (Edited by) Language: English Subtitle: Abridged edition ISBN-10: 0199536333 Description: 'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy moralizing and watery vegetables, Beeton's book is a revelation: it ranges widely across the foods of Europe and beyond, actively embracing new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles. Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and blusteringly self-confident, Household Management highlights the concerns of the ever-expanding Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. The abridged edition does justice to its high status as a cookery book, while also suggesting ways of approaching this massive, hybrid text as a significant document of social and cultural history. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Society & Culture Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, History, Food & Drink Item Weight: 487g Release Year: 2008 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
