Games, Greek and Pluck
Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914
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2024
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New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
9781803746135 (ISBN)
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
9781803746135 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Andy Carter completed his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University. He previously gained a BA in History and Archaeology from Bangor University and an MA in Public History from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also the author of Beyond the Pale: Early Black and Asian Cricketers in Britain, 1868-1945.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.12.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Sport, History and Culture ; 13 |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Richard Holt, Matthew Taylor |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 497 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | 19th century Britain • Andy • British • Carter • Class • Classical Reception • Classicism • classics • Education • Elite • Games • Greek • history of education • History of sport • Holt • Masculinity • Mason • Matthew • Olympic Games • Pluck • Public schools • Richard • rowing • Social History • sociology of sport • Sport • Taylor • Tony • Victorian Studies |
| ISBN-13 | 9781803746135 / 9781803746135 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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