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Leisure in Art and Literature Michael Mallett

Leisure in Art and Literature By Michael Mallett

Leisure in Art and Literature by Michael Mallett

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The description or depiction of leisure activities has formed part of the subject matter of art and literature for a long time. This volume looks at funeral games in Homer, leisure as depicted in painting, and the part that literature played in promoting athleticism in public schools and Oxbridge.

Leisure in Art and Literature Summary

Leisure in Art and Literature by Michael Mallett

The description or depiction of leisure activities has formed part of the subject matter of art and literature for a long time. This volume looks at funeral games in Homer, leisure as depicted in painting, and the part that literature played in promoting athleticism in public schools and Oxbridge.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; C.Barrett - Funeral Games of Homer and Vergil; T.J.Winnifrith - Leisure and Civilization in English Literature; E.Larrissy - Up Tails All: Leisure, Pleasure and Paranoia in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; G.Hyde - P.G.Wodehouse: The Case of Leisure as the Sole Topic of an Author's Output; S.J.S.Ickringill - Leisure in Western Painting; C.Barrett - Audiences, Art and Theatre: The Justification of Leisure and Images of the Eighteenth Century English Stage; S.West - Harold Abrahams: Athlete, Author and Amateur; J.Bromhead - 'To the Glory that was Greece': Classical Images in Public School Athletics; M.Tozer - Lamentable Barbarians and Pitiful Sheep: Rhetoric of Protest in Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Oxbridge'; J.A.Mangan

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NLS9781349113552
9781349113552
1349113557
Leisure in Art and Literature by Michael Mallett
Michael Mallett
Warwick Studies in the European Humanities
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1992-01-01
159
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