The healthy body and victorian culture
Bruce Haley
Bok · Engelsk · 1978
| Originaltittel | [ The healthy body and victorian culture .] Engelsk
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| Omfang | 296 sider
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| Opplysninger | Part One: Sound Body, Sound Mind 1. Introduction: Victorian Health ; Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Victorian Psychophysiology ; The Thoroughly Healthy Mind: Victorian Criticism ; Obeying the Laws of Life: Carlyle and Spencer ; Types of Healthy Christianity: Newman and Kingsley. Part Two: The Healthy Man ; The New Era: Victorian Sport and Training ; Growing Up Healthy: Images of Boyhood ; Anarchy and Physical Culture ; Two Staunch Walkers: Tom Thurnall and Tom Tulliver ; The True Gentleman and the Washed Rough in Broadcloth ; The Athlete as Barbarian: Richard Feverel and Willoughby Patterne ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index. - Health obsessed the Victorians. The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas.
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| Emner | engelsk litteratur helse medisin kultur viktoriatiden
1800-tallet Storbritannia England |
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| ISBN | 978-0674284739
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