Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773106
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Disreputable Pleasures by : Mike Huggins
Download or read book Disreputable Pleasures written by Mike Huggins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This irreverent and revisionist collection challenges the conventional view that middle-class Victorian leisure had a respectable and serious purpose and approach. It explores the more sinful and unrespectable Victorian male pleasures, demonstrating the complex interrelationships between such values as manliness, muscularity and machismo, or sensuality, virility and hedonism. It sheds light on the ways in which the public rhetoric of Victorian respectability could be rendered problematic by the practical pursuit of private pleasure. It shows that Victorian leisure was a much more contested cul.