Yaara Benger Alaluf

The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking

Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870-1918

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780198866152
• ISBN-10: 0198866151
• Artikelnr.: 60360660

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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