Document Type
Article
Publication Title
McGill Law Journal
Volume
45
Publication Date
2000
Keywords
Victorian England, popular recreation, private law nuisance, Victorian Judges
Abstract
In this article, Rachel Vorspan investigates the complex role played by the courts in the social and cultural transformation of Victorian England. Through focusing on judicial rulings in the recreational as well as political and industrial contexts she explains how the English judiciary played an important function in "rationalizing" the major institutions and practices of urban leisure
Recommended Citation
Rachel Vorspan,
Rational Recreation and the Law: The Transformation of Popular Urban Leisure in Victorian England , 45 McGill L. J. 891
(2000)
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