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Paperback Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850-1914 Book

ISBN: 1803746130

ISBN13: 9781803746135

Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850-1914

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...

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