Title Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 : a transnational perspective / edited by Peter Borsay and Jan Hein Furnée

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in popular culture Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England) Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Series information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of contributors; General editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; I Introduction; Leisure history: some problems and challenges; Vectors of transmission; The urban factor; The Enlightenment and nationalism; Notes; I Charting the flows: institutions and genres; 2 Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-1850; Entangled commercial art venues: London and Paris, new capitals of the art market Art halls and exhibitions run by cultural associationsMajor national and international institutions and exhibitions; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre ... ; Emotions for everyone; Boulevard plays; The melodrama industry; European circulation and adaptation: Britain and Italy; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission; The transformation of English sports; Sports on the European continent; From games to sports; Six explanations; Conclusion; Notes II Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures5 Georgian Bath: a transnational culture; Foreign influences; Vectors of transmission; Resistance, adaptation and nationalism; Notes; 6 Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities; The court as the measure of all music; Music, cosmopolitanism and the public sphere; The politics of language; Shifting cultural outlooks: the French and Dutch regimes; In search of a Belgian national and cultural identity; Growing Flemish resentment; Conclusion; Notes 7 Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth-nineteenth ... Theatres; Concerts and balls; Cafés and restaurants; Parks and promenades; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul; Coffeehouses in Europe and the Ottoman Empire: a diverging tradition?; Patrons and clients; Sociability and politics; 'Europe' in the Istanbul coffeehouse; Notes; III Towards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture; 9 The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London; Fixing norms: the normative literature Policing leisureConclusion; Notes; 10 City of pleasure or ville des plaisirs? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through ... ; Social distinctions; Gendered leisure towns; National identities; Conclusion; Notes; 11 The role of inland spas as sites of transnational cultural exchange in the production of European ... ; The making of the spas: 1750-1790; The making of resort culture: 1790s-1840s; The making of the leisure resorts: 1850-1870; Conclusion; Notes; 12 Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780-18701; The rise and spread of the British seaside resort 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 Analysis Europe Urban cultural transfer culture early modern leisure modern transnational Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 1, 2015) Subject Leisure class -- History -- 18th century Leisure class -- History -- 19th century Leisure -- Europe -- History -- 18th century Leisure -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Social & Cultural History. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Leisure Leisure class Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Borsay, Peter, editor Furnée, Jan Hein, editor ISBN 9781784997045 1784997048

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