The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London

• Autores: Laurent Turcot
• Localización: Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700-1870: a transnational perspective / coord. por Peter Borsay, Jan Hein Furnée, 2016, ISBN 9781526104304, págs. 185-209
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter examines the distinctions but also the links between Paris and London, with special reference to the ‘culture of leisure’, a phenomenon formalised during the eighteenth century. Recent research by Robert and Isabelle Tombs, Jonathan Conlin, François-Joseph Ruggiu, Renaud Morieux and others has shown the multifaceted advantages of comparative histories of eighteenth-century France and Britain. Meanwhile, the comparative study of Paris and London, as capital cities and global metropolises, has been advanced by the work of scholars such as Karen Newman and Vanessa Harding. In adopting an approach based on the theme of cultural transfer, it becomes clear that these two cities, despite their lack of a common political history, possessed numerous links which allow us to understand how far each was defined by reference to the other. In particular, it is possible to observe the extent to which mutual emulation contributed to transformations in the social realities of both cities.