Palaces of pleasure from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass entertainment
Presentación del editor: "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 desires were satiated by determined entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusemen...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
2019
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on money
- Introduction or, Expensive and dangerous amusements
- I. The gin palace or, The abodes of suicide
- II. The free-and-easy or, The glorious Apollo
- III. The music hall or, He slept on the piano
- IV. The dancing-room or, The way of the whirled
- V. The pleasure garden or, The midnight roysterers
- VI. The exhibition ground or, The city of side-shows
- VII. The seaside or, A triumphal car for Neptune
- VIII. The football field or, To brutalise the game
- Conclusion or, The murderer of though
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.
