Images of manliness and competeing ways of living in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Vorstellungen von Maennlichkeit und wettstreitenden Lebensweisen im spaeten viktorianischen und edwardianischen Grossbritannien
Autor:Maguire, Joe
Erschienen in:The British journal of sports history
Veröffentlicht:3 (1986), 3, S. 265-287, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:0264-9373
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Erfassungsnummer:PU199507076848
Quelle:BISp

Abstract

The author examines the image of manliness by assessing the patterns of spectating at Assosiation football matches and the forms of street life that were seen in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how the existence of any adherence to particular working-class codes of manliness stemmed from three factors, and is linked to the character and transformation of British society during the nineteenth century, when industrialisation and urbanisation played an important role. He explains how the modernisation of football and the development of new forms of maniless affected society and he looks at th 'public school' as an institution which upheld manliness and independence. He explains how the 'games cult' in these schools helped to create and sustain conditions in which modern football could develop. He describes various incidences of a rowdy sub-culture and explains how soccer did not become a classless sport. He outlines how attempts to establish mutually agreed forms of manliness were not possible due to the class predujice of Victorian and Edwardian gentlemen and the active resistance to this by the working class. Eaton