"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens

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dc.contributor.authorWohlcke, Anne Elizabethen
dc.contributor.committeechairJones, Kathleen W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberEkirch, A. Rogeren
dc.contributor.committeememberNelson, Amyen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:43:07Zen
dc.date.adate2008-08-22en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:43:07Zen
dc.date.issued1996en
dc.date.rdate2008-08-22en
dc.date.sdate2008-08-22en
dc.description.abstractAny historian of eighteenth-century England, especially London, examines the emerging "middle ranks", but they often neglect to address how gender shaped the growing middle-class identity. The importance of gender in the formation of a middle-class identity is often not apparent because the arenas in which gender was regularly debated, like pleasure gardens, are not studied. Examining public spaces like pleasure gardens demonstrates the limitations imposed on women's history by "separate spheres” historiography and contributes to our understanding of women's work because it shows that women worked outside a domestic economy. In pleasure gardens, middling and working women encountered each other while they challenged gender expectations and with their behavior, they laid the cultural foundations of a later feminist movement. The ability to pursue leisure was an important facet of middle-class life and in studying places of public democratic leisure like pleasure gardens, we begin to see shared ideas of gender emerging in popular culture.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentviii, 111 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08222008-063029en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222008-063029/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44320en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1996.W645.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 35094766en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1996.W645en
dc.title"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardensen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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