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Leisure in Art and Literature

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Tom Winnifrith

    1. Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

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  2. Cyril Barrett

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Part of the book series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities (WSEH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Cyril Barrett
    Pages 1-13

  3. Funeral Games in Homer and Virgil

    • Tom Winnifrith
    Pages 14-26

  4. Leisure and Civilisation in English Literature

    • Edward Larrissy
    Pages 27-38

  5. Up Tails All: Leisure, Pleasure and Paranoia in Kenneth Grahame’s

    • G. M. Hyde
    Pages 39-51

  6. P. G. Wodehouse: The Case of Leisure as the Sole Topic of an Author’s Output

    • S. J. S. Ickringill
    Pages 52-68

  7. Leisure in Western Painting

    • Cyril Barrett
    Pages 69-80

  8. Audiences, Art and Theatre: The Justification of Leisure and Images of the Eighteenth-Century English Stage

    • Shearer West
    Pages 81-98

  9. Harold Abrahams: Athlete, Author and Amateur

    • John Bromhead
    Pages 99-108

  10. ‘To the Glory that was Greece’: Classical Images in Public School Athleticism

    • Malcolm Tozer
    Pages 109-129

  11. Lamentable Barbarians and Pitiful Sheep: Rhetoric of Protest and Pleasure in Late Victorian and Edwardian Oxbridge

    • J. A. Mangan
    Pages 130-154

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 155-159
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

    Tom Winnifrith

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Cyril Barrett

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