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The sporting life : Victorian sports and games / Nancy Fix Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Victorian life and timesPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.Description: xxvii, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780275989996 (hard copy : alk. paper)
  • 0275989992
  • 9780313071485
  • 0313071489
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Sporting life.LOC classification:
  • GV605 .A55 2010
Contents:
Chronology -- English sports before the Victorians -- The remaking of sporting culture in early-Victorian England -- Sports in the Victorian public schools and universities -- Rational recreation and muscular Christianity -- The sporting revolution -- The new sporting woman -- The professionalization of sports in late-Victorian England -- Sports and the imperial mission.
Review: "Just as our own games reveal much about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. Nancy Fix Anderson's The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, how it came to permeate most aspects of Victorian life, and what it all conveys about gender, class, race, imperialism, and national pride."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronology -- English sports before the Victorians -- The remaking of sporting culture in early-Victorian England -- Sports in the Victorian public schools and universities -- Rational recreation and muscular Christianity -- The sporting revolution -- The new sporting woman -- The professionalization of sports in late-Victorian England -- Sports and the imperial mission.

"Just as our own games reveal much about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. Nancy Fix Anderson's The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, how it came to permeate most aspects of Victorian life, and what it all conveys about gender, class, race, imperialism, and national pride."--BOOK JACKET.