First Resorts : Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island

Sterngass, Jon

Johns Hopkins University Press（2002/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780801865862
• DDC分類 974.7

Full Description

In this work, Jon Sterngass follows three of the best-known north-eastern American resorts across a century of change. Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island began, he finds, as similar pleasure destinations, each of them featuring "grand" hotels where visitors swarmed public spaces such as verandas, dining rooms and parlours. As the century progressed, however, Saratoga remained much the same, while Newport turned to private (and lavish) "cottages" and Coney Island shifted its focus to amusements for the masses. Fifty-nine illustrations enliven Sterngass's study of the commodification of pleasure that occurred as capitalist values flourished, travel grew more accessible, and leisure time became democratized. These three resorts, he argues, served as forerunners of 20th-century pleasure cities such as Aspen, Las Vegas and Orlando.

Contents

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transforming Resorts
Chapter One: The Creation of Saratoga Springs: Taking the City with Us
Chapter Two: The Revival of Newport: The Pilgrimage of Fashion
Chapter Three: The Rise of Coney Island: Strangers in the Land of the Perpetual Fete
Chapter Four: The Public Resort: To See and Be Seen
Chapter Five: The Commercialization of Saratoga Springs: Racetracks, Casinos, and Souvenirs
Chapter Six: The Privatization of Newport: "Coarseness and Vulgarity Are Never Seen Here"
Chapter Seven: "That was Coney As We Loved It, and As the Hand of Satan Was upon It"
Conclusion: The Pursuit of Privacy, Profit, and Pleasure
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index