Becoming Centaur : : Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship / / Monica Mattfeld.
In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one's gendered and political positions within society.Men of the period used horses to transform themselves,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures ;
9 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 35 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Of Horses and Men
- 1 William Cavendish and Hobbesian Horsemanship
- 2 Riding Houses and Polite Equestrianism
- 3 Astley's Amphitheatre
- 4 Henry William Bunbury and the Mock Manuals of Horsemanship
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index