Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700–1870 A transnational perspective

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Furnée, Jan Hein, Editor.

Borsay, Peter, Editor.

Series:

Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)

Studies in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leisure class.

Leisure.

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

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

Leisure class--History--19th century.

Leisure class--History--18th century.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, [England] : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume combines research on a wide variety of leisure activities in the early modern and modern periods, providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

General editors introduction

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part I Charting the flows: institutions and genres

2 Art in the urban public sphere

3 Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe

4 Games and sports in the long eighteenth century

Part II Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures

5 Georgian Bath

6 Music and opera in Brussels, 17001850

7 Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space

8 Coffeehouses

Part III Towards an entangled history of urban leisure culture

9 The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London

10 City of pleasure or ville des plaisirs? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing (17001820)

11 The role of inland spas as sites of transnational cultural exchange in the production of European leisure culture (17501870)

12 Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 178018701

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784996420

1784996424

9781526104304

152610430X

9781784997045

1784997048

OCLC:

981864217