The sporting life : Victorian sports and games

Anderson, Nancy F. (Nancy Fix) 1941- (Author).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 0313071489
ISBN: 9780313071485
ISBN: 0275989992
ISBN: 9780275989996 (hard copy : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxvii, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.