{"product_id":"shopping-as-comedy-a-victorian-scrapbook-hardback","title":"Shopping as Comedy: A Victorian Scrapbook - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cbr\u003ehandwritten 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 \u003cbr\u003ea 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547568398574,"sku":"9781032408002","price":193.6,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/shopping-as-comedy-a-victorian-scrapbook-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}