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The problem of pleasure : sport, recreation, and the crisis of Victorian religion /

This title traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Erdozain, Dominic
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2010.
Colección:Studies in modern British religious history ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Born free and everywhere in chains" : evangelicalism and the problem of pleasure
  • Romanticism with boots on : the virtues of sport
  • Renegotiating the secular : the coming of recreation to the mid-Victorian religious world
  • "We are all cyclists now" : applying the pleasure principle
  • Sport and the secularisation of late-Victorian church and the "Gospel of Amusement."