Games, Greek and Pluck
Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850-1914
Series: Sport, History and Culture; 13;
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Product details:
- Publisher Peter Lang
- Date of Publication 1 January 2024
- ISBN 9781803746135
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 19x152x229 mm
- Weight 497 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 Abb. 525
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Short description:
How classical ideas shaped the elite British male's view of his place in the world and his attitudes to masculinity, gender, race, class and duty. How classicism and athleticism were closely entwined in the English public school. The networks of classicists behind the reform of British sport in the late-nineteenth century.
MoreLong description:
Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, this book shows how classicism and athleticism were closely entwined. Using primary sources, such as school magazines and memoirs, it considers how classical ideas shaped the elite British male's view of his place in the world and his attitudes to masculinity, gender, race, class and duty. At the heart of this process were a comparatively small number of classically-educated men who influenced the reorganisation and reform of games between 1850 and 1914 laying the foundations for modern sport. This book explores their overlapping social networks, and the ways in which they sometimes co-opted ancient history, as they tried to retain control of the sporting landscape and promote an 'amateur ideal' based on a past that never really existed.
MoreTable of Contents:
Contents: Classics in the Public School: Exclusivity, Excellence and Indifference - Manliness, Masculinity and Morality: Ancient Graeco- Roman Influences on Education - 'At Home at Oxbridge': British and Irish Literature on Ancient Sport - Warre, Welldon, Etonian Classicism and Victorian Sport - Henley, Class and Classics - The Hellenisation of the Modern Olympics.
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