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Disreputable pleasures : less virtuous Victorians at play / edited by Mike Huggins, J.A. Mangan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sport in the global society.
- Sport in the global society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--Great Britain--History.
- Leisure.
- Leisure--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 246 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Frank Cass, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This irreverent and revisionist collection challenges the conventional view that middle-class Victorian leisure had a respectable and serious purpose and approach. It explores the more sinful and unrespectable Victorian male pleasures, demonstrating the complex interrelationships between such values as manliness, muscularity and machismo, or sensuality, virility and hedonism. It sheds light on the ways in which the public rhetoric of Victorian respectability could be rendered problematic by the practical pursuit of private pleasure. It shows that Victorian leisure was a much more contested cul.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Prologue All mere complexities; 1 Bullies, beatings, battles and bruises: 'great days and jolly days' at one mid-Victorian public school; 2 Bloods blues and barbarians some aspects of late Victorian; 3 Dandy rats at play the Liverpudlian middle classes and; 4 Popular Sunday newspapers, respectability and working-class culture in late Victorian Britain; 5 Disreputable adolescent reading low life women in peril and; 6 Cartoons and comic periodicals 1841 1901 a satirical sociology.
- 7 A heart of darkness? Leisure, respectability and the aesthetics of vice in Victorian Wales8 Violence gamesmanship and the amateur ideal in Victorian; Epilogue: The dogs bark but the caravan moves on; Notes; Select bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-77309-2
- 1-135-77310-6
- 1-280-04857-3
- 0-203-48708-7
- 0-415-34598-7
- 9780203487082
- OCLC:
- 437056362
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