{"title":"The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment","authors":"J. Kneale","doi":"10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474435734.003.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers drink and temperance in Victorian ports and resorts. Where there was drink there would invariably be temperance; the visibility of drunkenness in the major British ports made them the focus of temperance reform. Temperance also figured in smaller towns, becoming one aspect of polite society in fashionable resorts and even financing public works. But was there anything specific about drink and temperance on the coast? Rob Shields once suggested that such ‘places on the margin’ might allow heterotopic reworkings of social order. The ‘Battle of Torquay’ between well-heeled Torquay society and working-class Salvation Army members suggests the coast as a site of transformation, but also that social control could be turned on abstainers as well as drinkers, producing less progressive places on the coast as well as more liberal ones.","PeriodicalId":162264,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474435734.003.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter considers drink and temperance in Victorian ports and resorts. Where there was drink there would invariably be temperance; the visibility of drunkenness in the major British ports made them the focus of temperance reform. Temperance also figured in smaller towns, becoming one aspect of polite society in fashionable resorts and even financing public works. But was there anything specific about drink and temperance on the coast? Rob Shields once suggested that such ‘places on the margin’ might allow heterotopic reworkings of social order. The ‘Battle of Torquay’ between well-heeled Torquay society and working-class Salvation Army members suggests the coast as a site of transformation, but also that social control could be turned on abstainers as well as drinkers, producing less progressive places on the coast as well as more liberal ones.
这一章讨论了维多利亚时期港口和度假胜地的饮酒和节制。哪里有酒,哪里就一定有节制;酗酒现象在英国主要港口随处可见,这使它们成为禁酒改革的焦点。禁酒在小城镇也有影响,成为时尚度假胜地上流社会的一个方面,甚至为公共工程提供资金。但是在海岸上有什么关于饮酒和节制的具体规定吗?罗伯·希尔兹(Rob Shields)曾提出,这样的“边缘地带”可能会允许社会秩序的异位重组。富裕的托基社会和工人阶级的救世军(Salvation Army)成员之间的“托基之战”(Battle of Torquay)表明,托基海岸是一个转型之地,但同时也表明,社会控制既可以转向酗酒者,也可以转向戒酒者,从而在沿海地区产生不那么进步的地方,也可以产生更自由的地方。