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Author:   Tom Winnifrith ,  Michael Mallett
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 1992
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.237kg
ISBN:  

9781349113552

ISBN 10:   1349113557
Pages:   159
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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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