1. Introduction 2. Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson 3. Charles Hamilton Sorley 4. Jerome K. Jerome 5. John Betjeman 6. Alan Sillitoe 7. Philip Roth 8. Concluding Comments
John Bale is professor emeritus of Sports Studies at Keele University, UK, and an honorary professor at Queensland University, Australia, and De Montfort University, UK.
"There are many things to admire in this book. The opening chapter,
for example, provides one of the best summaries of sport and
literature I have read in a long time. Bale's close readings of his
chosen texts are both sensitive and intelligent, bringing out many
new perspectives on the writers. His defence of his subject - the
oppositional literature of sport and body culture - is vigorous and
persuasive, and set within a wealth of references. ""...this is a
fascinating book. It has something of the 'showstopper' quality
about it."Jeffrey Hill, De Montfort University
"There are many things to admire in this book. The opening chapter,
for example, provides one of the best summaries of sport and
literature I have read in a long time. Bale's close readings of his
chosen texts are both sensitive and intelligent, bringing out many
new perspectives on the writers. His defence of his subject - the
oppositional literature of sport and body culture - is vigorous and
persuasive, and set within a wealth of references. ""...this is a
fascinating book. It has something of the 'showstopper' quality
about it."Jeffrey Hill, De Montfort University"Bale’s central
achievement is to demonstrate the rich potential withinliterature
in its broadest sense for the sports historian. Bale takes
thereader on a journey across time and space, into writers’
imaginations butalso connected with the real concerns of the age in
which they werewriting.""Bale’s willingness to reveal the
complexities of his chosen authors, and tolink their writings
directly to their life and times, makes for a fascinatingread."Paul
Dimeo, University of Stirling
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