The sporting life : Victorian sports and games / Nancy Fix Anderson.
2010
GV605 .A55 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
The sporting life : Victorian sports and games / Nancy Fix Anderson.
ISBN
9780275989996 (alk. paper)
0275989992 (alk. paper)
0275989992 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xxvii, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
GV605 .A55 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.0941/09034
Summary
"Just as our own games reveal much about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. Nancy Fix Anderson's The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, how it came to permeate most aspects of Victorian life, and what it all conveys about gender, class, race, imperialism, and national pride."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Victorian life and times.
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Table of Contents
Chronology
English sports before the Victorians
The remaking of sporting culture in early-Victorian England
Sports in the Victorian public schools and universities
Rational recreation and muscular Christianity
The sporting revolution
The new sporting woman
The professionalization of sports in late-Victorian England
Sports and the imperial mission.
English sports before the Victorians
The remaking of sporting culture in early-Victorian England
Sports in the Victorian public schools and universities
Rational recreation and muscular Christianity
The sporting revolution
The new sporting woman
The professionalization of sports in late-Victorian England
Sports and the imperial mission.