London's West End : Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 / Rohan McWilliam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliam, Rohan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West End (London, England)--History.

West End (London, England).

Centers for the performing arts--England--London--History.

Centers for the performing arts.

Central business districts--England--London--History.

Central business districts.

Genre:

History.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This history of the West End of London, shows how the nineteenth-century growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry shaped modern culture and consumer society, and made London a world centre of entertainment and glamour.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE ARISTOCRATIC WEST END, 1800

50

1. Drury Lane, 1800

2. Arcadia

3. The Beau Monde

4. The Histrionic Art

5. Curiosity

pt. TWO THE BOURGEOIS WEST END, 1850

1914

6. The Making of the West End, 1850

7. Capital of Pleasure

8. Capital of Culture

pt. THREE SHOWBIZ

9. The Age of Boucicault, 1843

80

10. Theatreland, 1880

11. The Populist Palatial

12. Gaiety Nights

pt. FOUR OUR HOSPITALITY

13. Eating Out

14. Grand Hotel

15. Shopocracy

pt. FIVE HEART OF EMPIRE

16. The Other West End.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: McWilliam, Rohan London's West End : Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914

ISBN:

0-19-255641-X

0-19-186212-6

0-19-255640-1

OCLC:

1141509129