A Sport-Loving Society: Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play

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ISBN: 9780714652450 | 0714652458
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/23/2006

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A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.

Notes on contributors

Series editor's foreword

xii

Middle-class memorials

xiv

Introduction: complicated matters

(10)

J.A. Mangan

Prologue -- setting the scene: second-class citizens? English middle-class culture and sport, 1850--1910 -- a reconsideration

(32)

Mike Huggins

PART I Sport and schools

(48)

The other side of the coin: Victorian masculinity, field sports and English elite education

(20)

J.A. Mangan

Callum McKenzie

English elementary education revisited and revised: drill and athleticism in tandem

(26)

J.A. Mangan

Colm Hickey

PART II Sport, universities and colleges

(52)

`Oars and the man': pleasure and purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge

(26)

J.A. Mangan

Athleticism in the service of the proletariat: preparation for the English elementary school and the extension of middle-class manliness

119

(24)

J.A. Mangan

Colm Hickey

PART III Sport and emancipation

143

(34)

The social construction of Victorian femininity: emancipation, education and exercise

145

(8)

J.A. Mangan

The `lady blue': sport at the Oxbridge women's colleges from their foundation to 1914

153

(24)

Kathleen E. McCrone

PART IV Sport and religion

177

(40)

Sport and the Victorian Sunday: the beginnings of middle-class apostasy

179

(19)

John Lowerson

To pray or to play? The YMCA question in the United Kingdom and the United States, 1850--1900

198

(19)

William J. Baker

PART V Sport and recreation

217

(38)

Culture, class and respectability: racing and the English middle classes in the nineteenth century

219

(20)

Mike Huggins

Of pride and prejudice: the amateur question in English nineteenth-century rowing

239

(16)

Eric Halladay

PART VI Sport, war and diplomacy

255

(42)

`No business of ours'? The Foreign Office and the Olympic Games, 1896--1914

257

(17)

Martin Polley

Sportsmen and the deadly game

274

(23)

Derek Birley

Epilogue -- rounding things off: sport and middle-class culture -- some issues of representation and identity before 1940

297

(16)

John Lowerson

Index

313

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A Sport-Loving Society: Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play

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