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Palaces of Pleasure

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Palaces of Pleasure

By Lee Jackson

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About the book

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, the Victorians reveled in these newly created `palaces of ...Show more

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ISBN

9780300224634

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Palaces of Pleasure

Format

Hardcover

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