Description |
xx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Sport in the global society |
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Sport in the global society.
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Contents |
Prologue : All mere complexities / Mike Huggins and J.A. Mangan -- Bullies, beatings, battles and bruises : 'great days and jolly days' at one mid-Victorian public school ; Bloods, blues and barbarians : some aspects of late Victorian Oxbridge / J.A. Mangan -- Dandy rats at play : the Liverpudlian middle classes and horse-racing in the nineteenth century / John Pinfold -- Popular Sunday newspapers, respectability and working-class culture in late Victorian Britain / David Scott Kamper -- Disreputable adolescent reading : low-life, women-in-peril and school sport 'penny dreadfuls' from the 1860s to the 1890s / John Springhall -- Cartoons and comic periodicals, 1841-1901 : a satirical sociology of Victorian sporting life / Mike Huggins -- A heart of darkness? Leisure, respectability and the aesthetics of vice in Victorian Wales / Andy Croll and Martin Johnes -- Violence, gamesmanship and the amateur ideal in Victorian middle-class rugby / Tony Collins -- Ludism, laughter and liquor : homosocial behaviour in late-Victorian Scottish harriers clubs / Hamish Telfer -- Epilogue : The dogs bark but the caravan moves on / Mike Huggins and J.A. Mangan |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Recreation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Men -- Recreation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Leisure -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Leisure -- Great Britain -- History.
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Author |
Mangan, J. A.
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Huggins, Mike.
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LC no. |
2004050221 |
ISBN |
0714653632 : |
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0415345987 hardback |
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