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Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment - Softcover

Jackson, Lee

 
9780300254785: Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300254784 ISBN 13: 9780300254785
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact

The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century&;s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created &;palaces of pleasure&;.
 
In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb &;immorality&; in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success.
 
The Victorians&; unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lee Jackson is a well-known Victorianist and creator of the preeminent website on Victorian London (victorianlondon.org). He is the author of Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth and Walking Dickens&; London.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300254784
ISBN 13 
9780300254785
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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