Leisure, voluntary action and social change in Britain, 1880-1939
Snape, Robert2019
Books, Manuscripts
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism, and socialism.
Main title:
Author:
Snape, Robert, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781350136083 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.4812094109034306.481
Language:
English
Subject:
Leisure -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryLeisure -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryVoluntarism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryVoluntarism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Index terms:
local author, Bolton, cinema, engineers sports club, clarion, industrial welfare, Sunday school cricket league, temperance, working men's club, socialist club, wood street, st, cycling, Edward Carpenter, Alice Foley, Tom France, Socialist Democratic Foundation, rambling, mass observation, greyhound racing, leisure, labour church, sport, Tom Mann
BRN:
2901350