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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
272
Utgivningsdatum
2004-08-01
Förlag
Routledge
Medarbetare
Mangan, J. A.
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
233 x 166 x 15 mm
Vikt
418 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISSN
1368-9789
ISBN
9780415345989

Disreputable Pleasures

Less Virtuous Victorians at Play

av Mike Huggins, J A Mangan
Häftad,  Engelska, 2004-08-01
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Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have over-polarised Victorian attitudes and challenges the conventional view that middle-class Victorian leisure had a respectable and serious purpose and approach. Disreputable Pleasures explores the more sinful and unrespectable Victorian male sporting pleasures, demonstrating the complex interrelationships between such value 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 pleasures. It shows that Victorian leisure was much more contested cultural space than has been recognised, a battleground whose contestants ranged from the rational recreationalist to the avowedly hedonistic, and from the sacred to the profane. Disreputable Pleasures poses a powerful challenge to the accepted public image of Victorian society and will greatly add to our present understanding of Victorian Britain.
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Mike Huggins, J A Mangan

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Mike Huggins is former head of postgraduate teacher training at Lancaster University, now retired. Now a sports history writer and researcher, he lectures at St. Martin's College, Lancaster. He is also the author of Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History, which won the prestigious North American Society for Sports History Prize for sports history book of the year in 2001. J.A. Mangan is former Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was founding Chairman of the British Society of Sports History and founding editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

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List of illustrations, List of tables, Prologue: All mere complexities, Part 1: The privileged pursuit of dubious pleasures, Part 2: The power of print: the media and respectability, Part 3: Vice, violence and virility across Victorian Britain, Epilogue: The dogs bark but the caravan moves on, Notes, Select bibliography, Index

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