Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Play, Game, Sport: Classic American Literature
6. Chapter 1. Hawthorne: The Play Spirit 15
7. Chapter 2. Sport and Society 38
8. PART II. The Popular Sports Hero
9. Chapter 3. Sport and the Frontier 59
10. Chapter 4. Organized Sport and Its Reporters 83
11. Chapter 5. Lardner: The Popular Sports Hero 108
12. PART III. The School Sports Hero
13. Chapter 6. The Incarnation of the College Athletic Hero 131
14. Chapter 7. The Boys' School Sports Story 155
15. Chapter 8. Fitzgerald: The School Sports Hero 180
16. Chapter 9. The School Sports Hero as Satiric Emblem: Hemingway and Faulkner 208
17. PART IV. The Modern Ritual Sports Hero
18. Chapter 10. Hemingway: Exemplary Heroism and Heroic Witnessing 231
19. Chapter 11. Faulkner: The Play Spirit 262
20. Chapter 12. Sports Approaches the Sacred: Hemingway and Faulkner 291
21. Conclusion 311
22. Notes 319
23. Index 361