Información General

• Autores: Peter Borsay (coord.), Jan Hein Furnée (coord.)
• Editores: Manchester University Press
• Año de publicación: 2016
• Colecciones: Studies in Popular Culture
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781526104304, 9780719089695
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Resumen

• This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe in the transition from the early modern to the modern period. The volume brings together research on a wide variety of leisure activities which are usually studied in isolation: from theatre and music culture, art exhibitions, spas and seaside resorts, to sports and games, walking and cafés and restaurants. The book develops a new research agenda for the history of leisure by focusing on the complex processes of cultural transfer that were fundamental in transforming urban leisure culture from the British Isles to France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria and the Ottoman Empire. How did new models of organising and experiencing urban leisure pastimes ‘travel’ from one European region to another? Who were the main agents of cultural innovation and appropriation? How did entrepreneurs, citizens and urban authorities mediate and adapt foreign influences to local contexts? 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? Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume offers students and scholars a broad overview of the history of urban leisure culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. The agenda-setting focus on transnational cultural transfer will stimulate new questions and contribute to a more integrated study of the rise of modern urban culture.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction

    Peter Borsay, Jan Hein Furnée

    • Resumen

    págs. 1-18

    

  • Charting the flows: institutions and genres

    • Art in the urban public sphere:: Art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-1850

      Jesús Pedro Lorente Lorente

      • Resumen

      págs. 21-48

      

    • Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: The genealogy and diffusion of a ‘popular’ theatrical genre and experience, 1780–1830

      Carlotta Sorba

      • Resumen

      págs. 49-71

      

    • Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: Failures of transmission

      Peter Clark

      • Resumen

      págs. 72-90

      

  • Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures

    • Georgian Bath: A transnational culture

      Peter Borsay

      • Resumen

      págs. 93-116

      

    • Music and opera in Brussels, 1700–1850: A tale of two cities

      Koen Buyens

      • Resumen

      págs. 117-139

      

    • Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth–nineteenth centuries

      Dag Lindström

      • Resumen

      págs. 140-160

      

    • Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul

      Cengiz Kirli

      • Resumen

      págs. 161-182

      

  • Towards an ‘entangled history’ of urban leisure culture

    • The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London

      Laurent Turcot

      • Resumen

      págs. 185-209

      

    • City of pleasure or ville des plaisirs? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing (1700–1820)

      Clarisse Coulomb

      • Resumen

      págs. 210-233

      

    • The role of inland spas as sites of transnational cultural exchange in the production of European leisure culture (1750–1870)

      Jill Steward

      • Resumen

      págs. 234-259

      

    • Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780–18701

      John K. Walton

      • Resumen

      págs. 260-277