Ways of Escape Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel
Modern life is often described as an iron cage from which there is no escape. But popular culture venerates leisure and travel as authentic escape routes from routine and monotony. However what kind of escape is tolerated in modern society? How is it shap
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Also by Chris Rojek CAPITALISM AND LEISURE THEORY FORGET BAUDRILLARD?
(co-editor with B. Tumer)
THE HAUNT O F MISERY (co-editor with G. Peacock and S. Col/ins) LEISURE FOR LEISURE (editor) SOCIAL WORK AND RECEIVED IDEAS (with G. Peacock and S. Collins) SPORT AND LEISURE IN THE CIVILIZING PROCESS (co-editor with E. Dunning)
Ways of Escape Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel Chris Rojek Senior Editor in Sociology Routledge
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© Chris Rojek 1993
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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Contents Acknowledgement
viii
Preface
ix
Introduction: Welcome to Greenfield Village
1
1
The Management of Pleasure
10
2
Thoroughly Modern Woman
51
3
Disorganized Leisure?
97
4
Fatal Attractions
136
5
Wonderful W orId
173
6
Conclusion
204
Notes
217
Bibliography
233
Index
247
vii
List of Illustrations 1 Some Modernist categories
3
2
'The Social Calendar'
43
3
Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC
139
4
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles
140
5
Thomas Hardy Country
159
6
The view of the world from Redondo Beach
193
7
Maerten van Heemskerck's sixteenth-century representation of the Pyramids in Egypt
197
Maerten van Heemskerck's representation of the Colossus
197
8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The author and publishers wish to acknowledge with thanks the source of the illustration on page 193, and to state that they have tried without success to contact the copyright-holder. They will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.
viii
Preface The critic who complains that this book sometimes reads as if it doesn't have both feet on the ground has a point. For much of it was conceived, considered and executed in mid-air as I flew from city to city in Europe and the USA pursuing my responsibilities as Senior Editor in Sociology at Routledge. Although air travel is commonly associated with anxiety, I have always found it to bring me peace of mind. Up there one is, as it were, suspended from earthly cares. Looking down from above the clouds one cannot avoid thinking. And I often think about the circumstances that led me into a career which I never intended to follow - but
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