Degeneration, Neurasthenia and the Culture of Sport in Belle Epoque France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10076554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Nye (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-68 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002200948201700103 |
| OpenAlex | W1995570801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 1 |
There are signs that physical culture and fitness first attained a definite level of political significance in modern Europe in the German nationalist opposition to the Napoleonic occupation. For a brief and heady period, educated Germans regarded physical training as important independently of military training and essential in its own right to the rebirth of the German nation. But the reactionary environment of the Restoration militated against a sustained linkage of exercise and nationalism, and temporarily returned physical culture to the sphere of the private and the domestic. In mid-Victorian Britain, as is well-known, old boys sent their sons to public schools to build manly character in the rough and tumble of the playing-fields. Yet it would be going too far to see in this essentially upper-class conceit the prefiguring of modern sportive nationalism; football seems to have served the purpose of reinforcing the internal solidarity of the political and colonial elite, while providing an emotional setting for the propagation of an evangelical and 'muscular' Christianity. For the appearance of the body as an 'ideological variable', one must wait until the last years of the nineteenth century; it may be that the ideological basis for the political apotheosis of sport was constructed in the nation whose reputation for modern forms of sport was least established in the minds of fin-de-siecle Europeans. Eugen Weber has shown that sport had already begun to absorb a good part of the attention of the boat, car, and cycle set in the 1880s and 1890s in France.' Team sports such as football and rugby also put down firm roots in this period, while gymnastics clubs con
Elite · Ideology · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Physical culture · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Introduction
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Explorando Caminhos Alternativos
Personal Equations
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |