TY - BOOK ID - 46390485 TI - Palaces of pleasure : from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass entertainment PY - 2019 SN - 9780300224634 030022463X 9780300245097 0300245092 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Amusements KW - Leisure industry KW - Performing arts KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Social life and customs KW - Spectacles et divertissements KW - Loisirs KW - Arts du spectacle KW - Industrie et commerce KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - Children KW - Entertainments KW - Pastimes KW - Recreations KW - Entertaining KW - Games KW - Play KW - Recreation KW - E-books KW - Amusements. KW - Amusements - Great Britain - History - 19th century KW - Leisure industry - Great Britain - History - 19th century KW - Performing arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century KW - Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901 KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46390485 AB - 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 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 thrills of the pleasure-garden and international expo, from parachuting monkeys to human zoos. 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, music hall, 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 entertainment industry. ER -