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Book SynopsisCombines research on a wide variety of leisure activities in the early modern and modern periods, providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Peter Borsay and Jan Hein Furnee Charting the flows: institutions and genres 1. Art in the urban public sphere: art venues by entrepreneurs, associations and institutions, 1800-50 - J. Pedro Lorente 2. Melodrama in post-revolutionary Europe: the genealogy and diffusion of a 'popular' theatrical genre and experience, 1780-1830 - Carlotta Sorba 3. Games and sports in the long eighteenth century: failures of transmission - Peter Clark Processes of selection and adaptation: actors and structures 4. Georgian Bath: a transnational culture - Peter Borsay 5. Music and opera in Brussels, 1700-1850: a tale of two cities - Koen Buyens 6. Leisure culture, entrepreneurs and urban space: Swedish towns in a European perspective, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries - Dag Lindstrom 7. Coffeehouses: leisure and sociability in Ottoman Istanbul - Cengiz Kirli Towards an 'entangled history' of urban leisure culture 8. The rules of leisure in eighteenth-century Paris and London - Laurent Turcot 9. City of pleasure or 'ville des plaisirs'? Urban leisure culture exchanges between England and France through travel writing, 1700-1820 - Clarisse Coulomb 10. The role of inland spas in the production of European leisure culture, 1750-1870 - Jill Stewart 11. Coastal resorts and cultural exchange in Europe, 1780-1870 - John K. Walton Index
