Title: Leisure in art and literature /
Authors: Winnifrith, Tom; Barrett, Cyril.
Publisher: Macmillan,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Leisure in literature Congresses.; Classical literature History and criticism Congresses.; English literature History and criticism Congresses; Leisure in art Congresses.; Recreation in literature Congresses.; Sports in literature Congresses.; School sports Great Britain History Congresses.
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.