Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment

by Lee Jackson and Lee Jackson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030022463X
• ISBN13: 9780300224634
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"