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Review Essay

Literature and Sports History: A Review of Recent Contributions

Pages 92-105 | Published online: 23 Mar 2009
 

Notes

1. A.S. Byatt, ‘Lie back and think of Europe’, Observer, 29 June 2008.

2. Cited in John Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments in literature: Batting for the opposition (London 2008), p. 12.

3. A prime example of this is the article by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair that begins: ‘Sport has the power to change the world, the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else can’: Tony Blair, ‘An uplifting power’, Time Magazine, 30 June–7 July 2008.

4. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 7.

5. Fred Coalter, A wider social role for sport: Who's keeping the score? (London, 2007).

6. See J. MacAloon, Muscular Christianity in colonial and post-colonial worlds (London, 2008).

7. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 17.

8. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 17

9. Katherine Blake, Play, games and sport: The literary works of Lewis Carroll (Ithaca, NY, 1974), p. 137.

10. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 27.

11. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 38.

12. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 154.

13. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 152.

14. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 154.

15. Bale, Anti-Sport sentiments, p. 1.

16. Jeffrey Hill, Sport and the literary imagination: Essays in history, literature, and sport (Bern, 2006), p. 11.

17. Jeffrey Hill, Sport and the literary imagination: Essays in history, literature, and sport (Bern, 2006), p. 24.

18. Jeffrey Hill, Sport and the literary imagination: Essays in history, literature, and sport (Bern, 2006), p. 27.

19. Jeffrey Hill, Sport and the literary imagination: Essays in history, literature, and sport (Bern, 2006), p. 12.

20. Jeffrey Hill, Sport and the literary imagination: Essays in history, literature, and sport (Bern, 2006), p. 17.

21. The other novels discussed by Hill are: David Storey's This sporting life, Brian Glanville's The rise of Gerry Logan, Richard Ford's The sportswriter, Philip Roth's American pastoral, Nick Hornby's Fever pitch and Ring Lardner's Midge Kelly.

22. Hill, Sport and the literary imagination, p. 37.

23. Hill, Sport and the literary imagination, p. 45.

24. Hill, Sport and the literary imagination, pp. 49–51.

25. Hill, Sport and the literary imagination, p. 197.

26. Hill, Sport and the literary imagination, p. 199.

27. James Pipkin, Sporting lives: Metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies (Columbia, MO, 2008), p. 3.

28. James Pipkin, Sporting lives: Metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies (Columbia, MO, 2008), pp. 3–4.

29. James Pipkin, Sporting lives: Metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies (Columbia, MO, 2008), p. 7.

30. Douglas Booth, The field: Truth and fiction in sports history (London, 2005).

31. M. Johnes, ‘Texts, audiences, and postmodernism: The novel as source in sport history’, Journal of Sport History, 34 (1) (2007), p.124.

32. M. Johnes, ‘Texts, audiences, and postmodernism: The novel as source in sport history’, Journal of Sport History, 34 (1) (2007), p. 130.

33. M. Johnes, ‘Texts, audiences, and postmodernism: The novel as source in sport history’, Journal of Sport History, 34 (1) (2007), p. 131.

34. M. Johnes, ‘Texts, audiences, and postmodernism: The novel as source in sport history’, Journal of Sport History, 34 (1) (2007), p. 130.

35. See Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is history fiction? (Sydney, 2006).

36. Verner M⊘ller, ‘Knud Enemark Jensen's death during the 1960 Rome Olympics: A search for truth?’, Sport in History, 25 (3) (2005), pp. 452–71.

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Paul Dimeo

Paul Dimeo, University of Stirling

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