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Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Palaces of Pleasure From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Author: Lee Jackson
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 build...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300224634
ISBN-10: 030022463X
Publication Date: 6/25/2019
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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