The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870-1918

ISBN-13: 9780198866152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Yaara Benger-Alaluf

Recenzje

The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking is an immensely erudite book that is structured in an intricate way and written in a demanding scholarly style with arguments interwoven and extended across successive chapters.

O autorze

Yaara Benger Alaluf is a historian and sociologist of tourism consumption and emotions. She completed her PhD at The Free University of Berlin in 2017 and was a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Her research focuses on the entanglement of therapeutic emotion knowledge and economic rationalization, as well as on the historical construction of the consumer as an emotional agent.