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

Charting 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, Lee Jackson brings to life the nineteenth-century mass entertainment industry of Victorian Britain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300254784
• ISBN13: 9780300254785
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.8"