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Leisure in the Industrial Revolution: c. 1780-c. 1880

By Hugh Cunningham

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
1317268741, 9781317268741
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
301 kB (308482 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
Pages
224\0
Topic
History
Time added
2023-02-25 13:34:44

Description

First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp discontinuity with the past; that cultural forms diffuse themselves only down the social scale, and that leisure helped ease class distinctions. An alternative interpretation is suggested in which popular culture can be seen as an active agent as well as a victim. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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