1st Edition

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

Edited By J A Mangan Copyright 2006
334 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their sports, and their influence is still felt in the way we organise, play and think of sport today. A Sport-Loving Society presents a selection... Read more

Series Editor’s Foreword  Middle Class Memorials  Introduction J.A. Mangan  Prologue: Setting the Scene  Second-Class Citizens? English Middle-Class Culture and Sport, 1850-1919: A Reconsideration Mike Huggins  Sport and Schools  1. The Other Side of the Coin: Victorian Masculinity, Field Sports and English Elite Education J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie  2. English Elementary Education Revisited and Revised: Drill and Athleticism in Tandem J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey  Sport, Universities and Colleges  3. ‘Oars and the Man’: Pleasure and Purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge J.A. Mangan  4. Athleticism in the Service of the Proletariat: Preparation for the English Elementary School and the Extension of Middle-Class Manliness J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey  Sport and Emancipation  5. The Social Construction of Victorian Femininity: Emancipation, Education and Exercise J.A. Mangan  6. The ‘Lady Blue’: Sport at the Oxbridge Women’s Colleges from their Foundation to 1914 Kathleen E. McCrone  Sport and Religion  7. Sport and the Victorian Sunday: The Beginnings of Middle-class Apostasy John Lowerson  8. To Pray or to Play? The YMCA Question in the United Kingdom and the United States, 1850-1900 William J. Baker  Sport and Recreation  9. Culture, Class and Respectability: Racing and the English Middle Classes in the Nineteenth Century Mike Huggins  10. Of Pride and Prejudice: The Amateur Question in English Nineteenth-Century Rowing Eric Halladay  Sport, War and Diplomacy  11. ‘No business of ours’?: The Foreign Office and the Olympic Games, 1896-1914 Martin Polley  12. Sportsmen and the Deadly Game Derek Birley  Epilogue: Rounding Things Off  Sport and British Middle-Class Culture: Some Issues of Representation and Identity before 1940 John Lowerson

Biography

Professor 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. He is author of the acclaimed Athleticism and the Victorian and Edwardian Public School and has written and lectured extensively on sport, culture and society