Research Catalog

Title

Leisure in art and literature / edited by Tom Winnifrith, Cyril Barrett.

Publication

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• Winnifrith, Tom
• Barrett, Cyril.

Description

xii, 159 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Warwick studies in the European humanities

Uniform Title

• Warwick studies in the European humanities
• Warwick studies in the European humanities.

Subject

• Leisure in literature > Congresses
• Classical literature > Congresses
• English literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Leisure in art > Congresses
• Recreation in literature > Congresses
• Sports in literature > Congresses
• School sports > Great Britain > Congresses
• Leisure

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Funeral games in Homer and Virgil / by Tom Winnifrith -- Leisure and civilisation in English literature / by Edward Larrissy -- Up tails all : leisure, pleasure and paranoia in Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows / by G.M. Hyde -- P.G. Wodehouse : the case of leisure as the sole topic of an author's output / by S.J.S. Ickringill -- Leisure in Western painting / by Cyril Barrett -- Audiences, art and theatre : the justification of leisure and images of the eighteenth-century English stage / by Shearer West -- Harold Abrahams : athlete, author and amateur / by John Bromhead -- To the glory that was Greece : classical images in public school athleticism / by Malcolm Tozer -- Lamentable barbarians and pitiful sheep : rhetoric of protest and pleasure in late Victorian and Edwardian Oxbridge / by J.A. Mangan.

ISBN

0333518748 :

LCCN

gb^92030283^

OCLC

• 27810487
• SCSB-10975345

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library