Praise for Consuming Passions: '"Consuming Passions" tells the story of Victorian leisure and pleasure as an interrelated and intricate set of transformations!no single book could bind so complex and vast a field within a single theory!(it) leads its crocodile of readers on an eccentric, meandering path through the question of how Victorians took pleasure!its pursuit proves a fascinating, bewildering, marvel-crammed quest.' Guardian 'It is a world explored with much wit and insight!Flanders is excellent!It's a rich mix [and]!fluently written!It has every chance of becoming a bestseller.' Sunday Telegraph 'Formidable![an] excellent study!a major achievement.' Observer