Temples of Luxury

Volume II: Department Stores

Lise Sanders, Susanne Schmid, Lise Sanders, Susanne Schmid

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000927276
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This two-volume collection of British primary sources examines institutions such as hotels, inns, arcades, bazaars, co-operatives, shops and department stores in the long nineteenth century, which were often coded as 'luxurious'. This period was marked not only by an increase of individual consumerism but also by the institutionalisation of opulent, often purpose-built spaces such as the much-admired new grand hotels, supposedly an American invention, and department stores, modelled on the French grands magasins. These environments were tied to leisure (no longer a prerogative of the upper classes) and thus to modernity. In addition to addressing the luxurious side of these institutions, including architectural innovation and interior decoration, we also consider the other side of luxury, examining the experience of staff and period debates over the morality of consumption.

This edition seeks to explore a fascinating but hitherto often neglected side of the British nineteenth century by bringing together a collection of annotated primary texts and visual material documenting these 'temples of luxury' as they were seen by their contemporaries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Department Stores: Precursors, Establishments, Alternatives
• 1 Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics
• 2 The Bazaar, Its Origins, Nature, and Objects Explained (1816)
• 3 Walks Through Bath (1819)
• 4 A Visit to the Bazaar (1820)
• 5 ‘The Lowther Arcade’ (1832)
• 6 ‘London Shops’ (1834)
• 7 ‘A Short Account of St. John’s Market’ (1835)
• 8 On the Construction and Decoration of the Shop Fronts of London (1840)
• 9 ‘The Lady Shopping’ (1841)
• 10 ‘Shops of London’ (1841)
• 11 ‘The Belle of the Burlington Arcade’ (1845)
• 12 Selection of Articles From Punch, or The London Charivari
• 13 The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace
• 14 ‘Arcadia’ (1853)
• 15 ‘Mr. Gye’s Plan for a Glass Street’ (1855)
• 16 ‘London Shops, Old and New’ (1857)
• 17 ‘Shawls, and Where They Come From. Cashmere Goat’ (1858)
• 18 ‘Westbourne Grove, Paddington’ (1860)
• 19 Punch on the International Exhibition
• 20 ‘The Royal Polytechnic, Glasgow, the Grand Centre of Attraction During the Holidays’ (1864)
• 21 Leisure Hour
• 22 The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson: By One of the Firm (1870)
• 23 ‘Lunch with the Linendrapers’ (1872)
• 24 ‘The Arrangement of Departments’ (1874)
• 25 Co-operative Stores
• 26 ‘The Philosophy of Shopping’ (1875)
• 27 Reminiscences of an Old Draper (1876)
• 28 Warehousemen and Drapers’ Trade Journal
• 29 ‘Afternoon Strolls I: A Japanese Warehouse’ (1876)
• 30 ‘Girl Labour in London’ (1877)
• 31 City Jackdaw (Manchester)
• 32 ‘Leviathan Shops and Stores’ (1881)
• 33 Building News
• 34 ‘The Ladies’ Paradise’ (1883)
• 35 A Guide to Window-Dressing: Reprinted from the Warehousemen and Drapers’ Trade Journal (1883)
• 36 Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884)
• 37 ‘The Riot in the West-End’ (1886)
• 38 The Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 1887
• 39 ‘A Little Shopping’ (1892)
• 40 The Odd Women (1893)
• 41 ‘A Few Facts About the Living-In-System’ (1894)
• 42 The Musical Comedy The Shop Girl (1894–96)
• 43 ‘The Ethics of Shopping’ (1895)
• 44 The Parisian Diamond Company, New Premises at 143 Regent Street, Opposite Liberty’s [Advertisement] (1897)
• 45 Texts by Margaret Bondfield
• 46 ‘A Woman’s Shopping’ (1901)
• 47 ‘A Woman’s Note-Book: How Shopping Affects Woman – and Man’ (1905)
• 48 ‘The Design and Architectural Treatment of the Shop’ (1913)
• 49 Bainbridge, Newcastle
• 50 The Albion Bazaar, Manchester
• 51 Whiteley’s ‘Universal Provider’, London
• 52 Harrod’s, London
• 53 Selfridge’s, London
• 54 ‘Citizens, Awake! Rising of Militant Women: Scenes Described by an Eye-Witness’ (1912)
• Index