Thomas Hughes was an adherent of Muscular Christianity, a philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. which promoted a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism. Thomas…
A didactic school story, Tom Brown's Schooldays was intended to instill young boys in the tradition of British masculinity, through providing positive examples of tenacity, athletics, and schoolboy bravery. Thomas Hughes was an adherent of Muscular…