Leisure settings : bourgeois culture, medicine, and the spa in modern France / Douglas Peter Mackaman.

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Mackaman, Douglas Peter.

Title & Author:

Leisure settings : bourgeois culture, medicine, and the spa in modern France / Douglas Peter Mackaman.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Description:

xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
1. Baths and curing in the Old Regime -- 2. Producing leisure : economics, class formation and the séjour for sale -- 3. Respectability emplaced -- 4. Medicine and the rhythming of bourgeois rest -- 5. Social benefits of spa consumption

Summary:

The artful use of one's free time was a discipline perfected by the French in the nineteenth 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 fascinating study. Taking us into the vibrant social world of France's great spas, Mackaman explores the links between class identity and vacationing. Mackaman 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, Mackaman argues, the bourgeoisie willingly became patients at spas and viewed this therapeutic vacation as a sensible, even productive, way of spending time. Mackaman analyzes this transformation,
And ultimately shows how the premier vacation of an era made and was made by the bourgeoisie.

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ISBN:

0226500748 (alk. paper)
9780226500744 (alk. paper)
0226500756 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226500751 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Health resorts Social aspects France History 19th century.
Balneology Social aspects France History 19th century.
Middle class France Social life and customs 19th century.
Health Resorts history
Balneology history
Social Conditions history
Balnéologie Aspect social France Histoire 19e siècle.
Health resorts Social aspects
Manners and customs
Middle class Social life and customs
Stations thermales France.
Balnéologie France.
Conditions sociales France.
Histoire du 19ème siècle.
Badekur
Gesellschaft
Gesellschaftsleben
Heilbad
Badplaatsen (geneeskunde)
Baden (hygiëne)
Burgerij.
Vrije tijd.
Cures thermales France 19e siècle.
Stations climatiques, thermales, etc. France 19e siècle.
Classes moyennes France Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Santé Aspect social France 19e siècle.
Balnéothérapie France 19e siècle.
Bourgeoisie France Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
France Social life and customs 19th century.
France
France Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Frankreich
France Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205799
Call No.: NA6763.F7 M3 1998
Status: Available

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