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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.

Amusements --- Leisure industry --- Performing arts --- History --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- Spectacles et divertissements --- Loisirs --- Arts du spectacle --- Industrie et commerce --- Grande-Bretagne --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Children --- Entertainments --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Entertaining --- Games --- Play --- Recreation --- E-books --- Amusements. --- Amusements - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Leisure industry - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Performing arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901 --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century

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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with ";night soil,"; graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them.Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details-from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet-this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

Sanitation --- History --- London (England) --- Social conditions