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Shopping was increasingly seen as a potentially pleasurable activity for middling and upper sorts in Hanoverian England, a distinctive yet everyday part of life, especially in London. This survey considers the emergence of a polite shopping culture at this time, and presents a `browse-bargain' model as a framework for considering contemporary references to shopping in written records and literary texts. The decline of polite shopping is charted with reference to the rise of cash-only businesses at the end of the century, and the shift towards a more hurried and impersonal form of shopping noted by early nineteenth-century shopkeepers, assistants and customers.
Author(s): Berry HM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Year: 2002
Volume: Sixth series
Issue: 12
Pages: 375-394
Print publication date: 01/01/2002
Date deposited: 14/12/2007
ISSN (print): 0080-4401
ISSN (electronic): 1474-0648
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0080440102000154
DOI: 10.1017/S0080440102000154
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