MORE SINFUL PLEASURES? LEISURE, RESPECTABILITY AND THE MALE MIDDLE CLASSES IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: Huggins, Mike J. | Copyright information

How respectable was the Victorian middle class? In spite of the period's identification as 'marking the emergence of a recognisably modern culture' and a 'new leisure world', there has been little exploration of this question. [1] Focus has been almost entirely on those more ordered and rational middle-class recreations seen as reinforcing the work ethic, thrift and respectability. [2] There has been little interest in middle-class leisure once the focus moves away from more formal...

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