The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion by Dominic Erdozain
The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion
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Dominic Erdozain
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The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion

Dominic Erdozain

322 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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It is generally held that the mid-Victorian turn to recreation and sport solved the problem, 'justifying God to the people' through cricket, cycling and football. This book argues otherwise - that the problem of pleasure was inflamed by the eccle...

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