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Yale University Press, Published 2019. Hardcover, xii, 304 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white engravings in text and 16 pages of plates, some in color.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Cream cloth boards, gold lettering on spine. Mild shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket shows light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.An account of the Victorian entertainment industry and its commercial rise. Lee Jackson charts the growth of gin palaces, music halls, dancing-rooms, pleasure gardens, seaside resorts, exhibition grounds, and football clubs, and how mass commercial leisure came to dominate nineteenth-century Britain despite the efforts of religious and moral reformers to curb it.Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A Note on Money; Introduction; The Gin Palace; The Free-and-Easy; The Music Hall; The Dancing-Room; The Pleasure Garden; The Exhibition Ground; The Seaside; The Football Field; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.