Cover -- Contents -- List of Short Titles -- Chapter 1 The Rise in Popularity of Pugilism and its Reporting -- In this Corner, Introducing Pierce Egan and the 'Boxiana Style' -- Pugilistic Interest Peaks and Declines -- Aspects of Egan to Consider -- Chapter 2 Flash!: The Language of the Metropolis and the Prize Ring -- Linguistic Factors: Authenticity and Illicitness -- Fancy Connection: The Metropolitan Slang of Life in London -- Early Boxiana Volumes -- Sports Talk: Reported Speech -- Egan's Sporting Newspapers and New Series Boxiana -- Post Boxiana Series -- Chapter 3 Sporting Theatre: Spectacle and Social Dynamics -- Drama Boxiana: Accentuating Spectacle in Pugilistic Af fairs -- Social Conflicts -- Different Perspectives on the Performance -- The Arts, and Further Classical Connections -- Racial Neutrality: Boxiana's Pugilistic Unity -- The Human Equivalent of the Cockpit -- Theatricality, and Re-packaging the Sport for Wider Appeal -- Chapter 4 The Nation - Military and Moral -- Transferring Sporting Attributes into Martial Combat -- Native Enmities: Rivalry Between Britons -- Conciliation and Integrity v Revenge and Dissipation -- Chapter 5 Enlivening Reality: The Egan Touch -- The Boxiana Style in Political Satire and Parody -- Boxiana Traces in Selected Nineteenth-Century Literature -- A Watershed, and Eganesque Sports Reporting -- Chapter 6 Post-Fight Observations -- Appendix Glossary of Nineteenth-Century Flash and Sporting Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.