The description or depiction of leisure activities has formed part of the subject matter of art and literature for a long time. This volume looks at funeral games in Homer, leisure as depicted in painting, and the part that literature played in promoting athleticism in public schools and Oxbridge.
List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; C.Barrett - Funeral Games of Homer and Vergil; T.J.Winnifrith - Leisure and Civilization in English Literature; E.Larrissy - Up Tails All: Leisure, Pleasure and Paranoia in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; G.Hyde - P.G.Wodehouse: The Case of Leisure as the Sole Topic of an Author's Output; S.J.S.Ickringill - Leisure in Western Painting; C.Barrett - Audiences, Art and Theatre: The Justification of Leisure and Images of the Eighteenth Century English Stage; S.West - Harold Abrahams: Athlete, Author and Amateur; J.Bromhead - 'To the Glory that was Greece': Classical Images in Public School Athletics; M.Tozer - Lamentable Barbarians and Pitiful Sheep: Rhetoric of Protest in Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Oxbridge'; J.A.Mangan
