Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870 (eBook, ePUB)

A transnational perspective
Redaktion: Borsay, Peter; Furnee, Jan Hein

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe during the transition from the early modern to the modern period. Bringing together research on a wide variety of activities - from the theatre and art exhibitions to spas, seaside resorts and games - it develops a new scholarly agenda for the history of leisure, focusing on the complex processes of cultural transfer that transformed urban leisure culture from the British Isles to the Ottoman Empire. How did new models of urban leisure pastimes travel throughout Europe? Who were the main agents of cultural innovation, appropriation and adaptation? How did the increasingly entangled character of European urban leisure culture impact upon the ways men and women from various classes identified with their social, cultural or (proto-)national communities? These are some of the questions explored by this accessible and wide-ranging collection, which looks at leisure from a long-term, interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996420
• Artikelnr.: 44242272

Autorenporträt

Peter Borsay is a Professor of History at Aberystwyth University Jan Hein Furnée is Professor of European Cultural History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Peter Borsay and Jan Hein Furnée Charting the flows: institutions and genres 1. Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800
50
J. Pedro Lorente 2. Melodrama in post
revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre and experience, 1780
1830
Carlotta Sorba 3. Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission
Peter Clark Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures 4. Georgian Bath: a transnational culture
Peter Borsay 5. Music and opera in Brussels, 1700
1850: a tale of two cities
Koen Buyens 6. Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries
Dag Lindström 7. Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul
Cengiz Kirli Towards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture 8. The rules of leisure in eighteenth
century Paris and London
Laurent Turcot 9. City of pleasure or 'ville des plaisirs'? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing, 1700
1820
Clarisse Coulomb 10. The role of inland spas in the production of European leisure culture, 1750
1870
Jill Stewart 11. Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780
1870
John K. Walton Index