Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Faculty Scholarship 2000 Rational Recreation and the Law: The Transformation of Popular Urban Leisure in Victorian England Rachel Vorspan Fordham University School of Law,
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[email protected]. "RationalRecreation" and the Law: The Transformation of Popular Urban Leisure in Victorian England Rachel Vorspan" Popular urban recreation underwent a radical trans- En Angleterre, les loisirs populaires urbains ont con- formation in nineteenth-century England. Rowdy and bru- nu une transformation radicale au IX' sikcle. Au cours de tal pre-industrial leisure activities in the city streets gave la deuxi~me moitid du XI si~cle, les loisirs et divertisse- way after the 1850s to more "rational", disciplined, morally ments de rue de l'poque pr6industrielle, souvent bmutaux respectable, and physically segregated pastimes. This arti- et peu raffinds, furent remplac~s par des passe-temps plus cle investigates the role of the courts in this complex de- crationnels>>, disciplines, moralement respectables et orga- velopment.