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After Comps

Garden Cities

• Bellamy. Looking Backward.
• Howard, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of Tomorrow.
• —“Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform.” (1898)
• Miller, Merwyn. Letchworth, the First Garden City.

Industrial Rev and Social History

Fic

• Disraeli. Sybil.
• Eliot. Felix Holt.
• Kingsley. Alton Locke.

Nonfic

• Briggs, Asa. “Private and Social Themes in Shirley.”
  • —A Social History of England.
  • —Victorian Things.
  • —Victorian Cities.
• Hobsbawm, Eric.
  • The Age of Capital
  • The Age of Revolution
  • —Industry and Empire
  • —Labouring Men
• Taylor, A J P. English History 1914-45.
  • Populist historian

• Thompson, E P. The Making of the English Working Class.

• Trevelyan, G M. English Social History.

Geography

• Berger, Ways of Seeing
• Anthony Giddens, The Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
• Debord, Situationist anthology (leisure, space, maps of Paris)

Cruise Ships

• Mark Twain. Innocents Abroad
• Hammerstein. You’re In Love. (Musical)
• Dickinson and Vladmir. Selling the Sea: an inside look at the cruise industry.
• Agatha Christie: 100 Million Dollar Bond Theft.

Seaside Archive

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/seaside_01.shtml
  • G R Sims, journalist; and “pleasure palaces”
  • Blackpool, Tower and Winter Gardens; Brighton, Tower (failure)
  • John Walton, prof
    • Themes: nature/culture, land/sea, constraint/hedonism; respectability; “displacement, routine, comfort, and boredom;” self-restraint and unwillingness to be embarrassed yield to “suspension of inhibitions” and fun
  • Seaside resort: “18th c invention,” says Walton; but growth w/railroad mostly & mostly about middle class; and took until 1870s for working class to use it (creating discord; some men affect to be higher than they are)
  • Variety of resorts: in terms of class and in terms of size; but the bigger ones do have mix of classes
  • Liminal space; and carnival, says Walton
• What Walton Says to Read
  • Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774-1967 by D Cannadine (Leicester University Press, 1980)
  • Patricians, Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Towns edited by D Cannadine (Leicester University Press, 1982)
  • Recreation and the Sea_ edited by S Fisher (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997)
  • Brighton: Old Ocean’s Bauble by EW Gilbert (Flare Books, 1975, first published 1954)
  • Unrespectable Recreations edited by M Hewitt (Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, 2001)
  • Power and Politics at the Seaside by N Morgan and A Pritchard (University of Exeter Press, 2000)
  • The People’s Palaces: The Story of the Seaside Pleasure Buildings of 1870-1914 by L F Pearson (Barracuda, 1991)
  • The Englishman’s Holiday: A Social History by JAR Pimlott (Flare Books, 1976, first published 1947)
  • The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-2000 by J Travis (University of Exeter Press, 1993)
  • The Blackpool Landlady: A Social History by JK Walton (Manchester University Press, 1978)
  • The English Seaside Resort: A Social History 1750-1914 by J K Walton, (Leicester University Press, 1983)
  • Blackpool by JK Walton (Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
  • The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century by JK Walton (Manchester University Press, 2000)
  • Leisure in Britain 1780-1939 edited by JK Walton and J Walvin (Manchester University Press, 1983)

• Histories of Tourism ed. by Walton
• Designing the Seaside, Fred Gray.
• Curing the Colonizers on French colonial spas. Eric Jennings. 2006
• The King of Bath: or, Life at a Spa in the 18th Century Hibbert Ware.
• The Imaginary Autocrats: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath 2005
• The Seaside, Health, and Environment in England and Wales Since 1800 2002. John Hassan (good intro; avail through amazon reader)
• The Harbours of England John Ruskin
• Resorts of the Lancashire Coast
• The English Seaside Peter Williams
• Leisure and Class in Victorian England, Peter Bailey
• The British Seaside Walton (yes, I’m reminding you!)
• The Garden City, Stephen Ward
• Alain Corbin, The Lure of the Sea
• Lencek and Bosker, The Beach: The History of Life on Earth
• Walton 2000; Morgan and Pritcher 1999; Chase 2000; Pimlot, Hern, Walver, and Perkin 1976 have early texts on it; Walton 1983 is the benchmark work
• Urry is the academic pioneer of the field, Shields, Matless 1998; Travis 1993