From Cha To Tea: A Study Of The Influence Of Tea Drinking On British Culture

How a product, in this case tea, winds its way into the fabric of acultural identity from within and without is what we have here in from cha to tea. literature provides the witness and consciousness of thegenesis and evolution of this very product first mentioned by samuelpepys in 1660 as a cupp of tee. here is an invitation to follow fromthis notation through to the present, tea drinking as it becomes cult, minor myth, metaphor and metonymy. this mini-anthology of britishliterature with well appointed connections from fields such as legend, anthropology, philosophy, literary criticism, women's studies,children's literature, even detective fiction all come around to agood read, academic prose written to be enjoyed.