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Scandals --- History --- Lincoln, Susan Hamilton, --- Beckford, William, --- Family --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- Nobility --- Biography. --- Family. --- Scandals - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Lincoln, Susan Hamilton, - Countess of, - -1889 --- Beckford, William, - 1760-1844 - Family --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century --- Beckford, William, - 1760-1844
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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.
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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"Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Vice control --- Alcoholism --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Control of vice --- Law enforcement --- Police --- History --- History. --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- Intoxication, Alcohol --- Vice control - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Alcoholism - Great Britain - History --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century --- Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901
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