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Dining in the Restaurant
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Chapter 6 offers a sketch of those who ate out in London. It emphasizes the diversity of diners, defined in terms of both social class and, critically, gender. Here diners are mapped onto broader patterns of social change in the metropolis, notably suburbanization, the expansion of the service sector, and changing leisure patterns. The chapter pays attention to the increased presence of women eating out in order to locate the restaurant in wider discussions about the interconnections between the domestic and public spheres, and the emergence of new forms of hetero-sociability. By inserting the restaurant diner into our understanding of Victorian and Edwardian metropolitan culture, the chapter qualifies, and even repudiates, some of the dominant scholarly interpretations of how identities were fashioned and performed at this time.
Title: Dining in the Restaurant
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Chapter 6 offers a sketch of those who ate out in London.
It emphasizes the diversity of diners, defined in terms of both social class and, critically, gender.
Here diners are mapped onto broader patterns of social change in the metropolis, notably suburbanization, the expansion of the service sector, and changing leisure patterns.
The chapter pays attention to the increased presence of women eating out in order to locate the restaurant in wider discussions about the interconnections between the domestic and public spheres, and the emergence of new forms of hetero-sociability.
By inserting the restaurant diner into our understanding of Victorian and Edwardian metropolitan culture, the chapter qualifies, and even repudiates, some of the dominant scholarly interpretations of how identities were fashioned and performed at this time.
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