Disreputable Pleasures (eBook, ePUB)

Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
Redaktion: Huggins, Mike; Mangan, J. A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the respectable image of Victorian society, this irreverent, revisionist collection explores the sinful side of middle-class Victorian leisure, highlighting the problematic relationship between public respectability and private pleasure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135773090
• Artikelnr.: 47892468

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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