Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Born Free and Everywhere in Chains’: Evangelicalism and the Problem of Pleasure
- 2 Romanticism With Boots on: The Virtues of Sport
- 3 Renegotiating the Secular: The Coming of Recreation to the Mid-Victorian Religious World
- 4 ‘We are all Cyclists Now’: Applying the Pleasure Principle
- 5 Sport and the Secularisation of Late-Victorian Youth Ministry
- 6 Contesting the Sacred: The Late-Victorian Church and the ‘Gospel of Amusement’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Born Free and Everywhere in Chains’: Evangelicalism and the Problem of Pleasure
- 2 Romanticism With Boots on: The Virtues of Sport
- 3 Renegotiating the Secular: The Coming of Recreation to the Mid-Victorian Religious World
- 4 ‘We are all Cyclists Now’: Applying the Pleasure Principle
- 5 Sport and the Secularisation of Late-Victorian Youth Ministry
- 6 Contesting the Sacred: The Late-Victorian Church and the ‘Gospel of Amusement’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Problem of PleasureSport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion, pp. viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010