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Format: xii, 304 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 030022463X , 978-0-300-22463-4

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Unterhaltung ; Vergnügen ; Kultur

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) , 24 color illus

ISBN: 9780300245097

Content: 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

Note: In English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780300224634

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780300224634

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300245097

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Format: 1 online resource (333 pages)

ISBN: 0-300-24509-2

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , 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 Thought -- , Endnotes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-300-22463-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300245097