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The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture Bruce Haley
The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
Bruce Haley
The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 5, 1978 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674284739 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 308 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 616 g |
| Language | English |