Sporting Victorians
In the light of the forthcoming 2012 London Olympics, the journal Critical Survey seeks proposals for 4,000-6,000 word articles discussing some of the cultural, national, social and political issues that sport encompassed in Britain in the years 1800-1914. The nineteenth century saw the rise of professionalism in sport and the emergence of women as participants. The topic of sport also engaged a wide range of novelists, poets, dramatists, painters and journalists - both as commentators and participants - from Byron's swimming to J.M. Barrie's cricket team. It is hoped that the topic's multi-disciplinary appeal will be apparent in some of the submissions.
Subjects might include but are not limited to the following:
- sport and literature
- sporting writers
- sport and gender
- sport and nation
- sport and the theatre
- empire
- the professionalization of sport
- sport and the countryside (including hunting)
- sport and the city
- sporting heroes
- sport and entertainment (including gambling)
- sport and crime
- sport and the body (including `Muscular Christianity')
- Hellenism
- sport and ethnicity
- sport and health
Please email proposals (of approximately 500 words) by 16 May 2011 to:
Andrew Maunder
Editor, Critical Survey
a.c.maunder@herts.ac.uk
http://journals.berghahnbooks.
Final essays will be due in by 31 December 2011 and the journal issue will be published in spring 2012.
Queries about this special issue of the Journal are welcome.