The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture

by Bruce Haley

2020-12-29 16:24:56

The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as... Read more
The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.75 in
Print pages308
PublisherWalter de Gruyter Gmbh US SR
Publication date February 5, 1978
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780674284739

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