Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology

by Mangan; J.A.

• ISBN13: 9780714680439
• ISBN10: 0714680435
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-09-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schoools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.

Author Biography

J. A. Mangan is Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
List of tables	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Foreword	xvii
Sheldon Rothblatt
Introduction	xxi
Jeffrey Richards
Regression and Progression: Introduction to the New Edition	xxvii
J. A. Mangan
Prologue	1	(12)
PART I: THE GROWTH OF THE IDEOLOGY
Reformation, indifference and liberty	13	(9)
Licence, antidote and emulation	22	(21)
Idealism, idealists and rejection	43	(25)
Compulsion, conformity and allegiance	68	(31)
PART II: THE FORCES OF IDEOLOGICAL CONSOLIDATION
Conspicuous resources, anti-intellectualism and sporting pedagogues	99	(23)
Oxbridge fashions, complacent parents and imperialism	122	(19)
Fez, `blood' and hunting crop: the symbols and rituals of a Spartan culture	141	(38)
Play up and play the game: the rhetoric of cohesion, identity, patriotism and morality	179	(89)
Epilogue	207	(16)
APPENDICES
I Historical documents of special significance in the evolution of athleticism	223	(8)
II Historical documents dealing with various aspects of the economics of athleticism	231	(12)
III The school magazine:	243	(8)
(a) The school magazine as a primary source
(b) A page and correspondence analysis of the school magazines 1866--1966
IV Some nineteenth--and twentieth-century timetables in relation to games	251	(2)
V Captains of school, games and academic awards	253	(2)
VI `Poets' of athleticism	255	(10)
VII Salaries of assistant masters at Harrow in 1874	265	(2)
VIII Jesus College, Cambridge: educational background of entrants in the nineteenth century	267	(1)
Notes	268	(41)
Bibliography	309	(28)
Index	337