Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c. 1700-1870 : a transnational perspective / %edited by Peter Borsay and Jan Hein Furnée.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borsay, Peter, editor.

Furnée, Jan Hein, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)

Studies in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leisure class--History--18th century.

Leisure class.

Leisure class--History--19th century.

Leisure--Europe--History--18th century.

Leisure.

Leisure--Europe--History--19th century.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe in the transition from the early modern to the modern period. The volume brings together research on a wide variety of leisure activities which are usually studied in isolation, from theatre and music culture, art exhibitions, spas and seaside resorts to sports and games, walking, cafés and restaurants. The book develops a new research agenda for the history of leisure by focusing on the complex processes of cultural transfer that were fundamental in transforming urban leisure culture from the British Isles to France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria and the Ottoman Empire. How did new models of organising and experiencing urban leisure pastimes 'travel' from one European region to another? Who were the main agents of cultural innovation and appropriation? How did entrepreneurs, citizens and urban authorities mediate and adapt foreign influences to local contexts? How did the increasingly 'entangled' character of European urban leisure culture impact upon the ways men and women from various classes identified with their social, cultural or (proto) national communities? Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume offers students and scholars a broad overview of the history of urban leisure culture in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Europe. The agenda-setting focus on transnational cultural transfer will stimulate new questions and contribute to a more integrated study of the rise of modern urban culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Peter Borsay Borsay, Peter, Jan Hein Furnée Furnée, Jan Hein 1

I Charting the flows: institutions and genres 19

2 Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-1850 / J. Pedro Lorente Lorente, J. Pedro 21

3 Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre and experience, 1780-1830 / Carlotta Sorba Sorba, Carlotta 49

4 Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission / Peter Clark Clark, Peter 72

II Processes of selection and adaptation; actors and structures 92

5 Georgian Bath: a transnational culture / Peter Borsay Borsay, Peter 93

6 Music and opera in Brussels. 1700-1850: a tale of two cities / Koen Buyens Buyens, Koen 117

7 Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth-nineteenth centuries / Dag Lindström Lindström, Dag 140

8 Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul / Cengiz Kirli Kirli, Cengiz 161

III Towards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture 183

9 The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London / Laurent Turcot Turcot, Laurent 185

10 City of pleasure or ville des plaisirs? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing (1700-1820) / Claaisse Coulomb Coulomb, Claaisse 210

11 The role of inland spas as sites of transnational cultural exchange in the production of European leisure culture (1750-1870) / Jill Steward Steward, Jill 234

12 Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780-1870 / John K. Walton Walton, John K. 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-286) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780719089695

0719089697

OCLC:

914222155

Publisher Number:

99966719541