Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking - Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870-1918

The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking explores the rise of popular holidaymaking in late-nineteenth-century Britain, generally considered to be the birthplace of mass tourism. It unravels the role emotions played in British spa and seaside holiday cultures.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Emotional Pathologies and Holidays as Therapy


• 2: Holiday Legislation as Remedy


• 3: Defining the Product: Health, Pleasure, and Class


• 4: The Emotionalization of the Holiday Resort


• 5: Learning to Consume Emotional Experiences


• Conclusion: The Emotional, the Moral, and the Economic

About the author

Yaara Benger Alaluf is a historian and sociologist of tourism consumption and emotions. She completed her PhD at The Free University of Berlin in 2017 and was a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Her research focuses on the entanglement of therapeutic emotion knowledge and economic rationalization, as well as on the historical construction of the consumer as an emotional agent.

Summary

The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking explores the rise of popular holidaymaking in late-nineteenth-century Britain, generally considered to be the birthplace of mass tourism. It unravels the role emotions played in British spa and seaside holiday cultures.

Additional text

he Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870-1918 by Yaara Benger Alaluf, explore different framings and experiences of happiness... Benger Alaluf's book approaches the question of the "cure" for the modern nervous or fatigued city dweller along these lines.

Product details

• Authors: Yaara Benger Alaluf, Yaara (Historian and Sociologist of Benger Alaluf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2021
• EAN: 9780198866152
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886615-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Emotions In History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Civilization, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Sociology: sport & leisure, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural history