Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest
line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line
between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant
than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist
collection argues that they have over-polarised Victorian attitudes
and challenges the conventional view that middle-class Victorian
leisure had a respectable and serious purpose and approach.
Disreputable Pleasures explores the more sinful and unrespectable
Victorian male sporting pleasures, demonstrating the complex
interrelationships between such value 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
pleasures. It shows that Victorian leisure was much more contested
cultural space than has been recognised, a battleground whose
contestants ranged from the rational recreationalist to the
avowedly hedonistic, and from the sacred to the profane.
Disreputable Pleasures poses a powerful challenge to the accepted
public image of Victorian society and will greatly add to our
present understanding of Victorian Britain.
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