Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology

Prologue Part I: The growth of the ideology 1. Reformation, indifference and liberty 2. Licence, antidote and emulation 3. Idealism, idealists and rejection 4. Compulsion, conformity and allegiance Part II: The forces of ideological consolidation 5. Conspicuous resources, anti-intellectualism and sporting pedagogues 6. Oxbridge fashions, complacent parents and imperialism 7. Fez, 'blood' and hunting crop: the symbols and rituals of a Spartan culture 8. Play up and play the game: the rhetoric of cohesion, identity, patriotism and morality Epilogue.