Leisure Settings

Name: Leisure Settings
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226500751
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Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France

Autor: Douglas P. Mackaman

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The artful use of one's free time was a discipline perfected by the French in the 19th century. Casi...

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Autor

Douglas P. Mackaman

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1998

Pagini

227

EAN

9780226500751

ISBN

0226500756

Enbook ID

04547140

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

354

Dimensiuni

160 x 258 x 16

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The artful use of one's free time was a discipline perfected by the French in the 19th century. Casinos, alpine hiking, hotel dinners, romantic gardens, and lavish parks were all part of France's growing desire for the ideal vacation. Perhaps the most intriguing vacation, however, was the ever popular health resort, and this is the main topic of Douglas Mackaman's study. Taking us into the vibrant social world of France's great spas, the text explores the links between class identity and vacationing. It shows how, after 1800, physicians and entrepreneurs zealously tried to break their milieu's strong association with aristocratic excess and indecency by promoting spas as a rational, ordered equivalent to the busy lives of the bourgeoisie. Rather than seeing leisure time as slothful, the text argues, the bourgeoisie willingly became patients at spas and viewed this therapeutic vacation as a sensible, even productive, way of spending time. Analyzing this transformation, the text ultimately shows how the premier vacation of an era made and was made by the bourgeoisie.

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