Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 /

Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 / / ed. by Daniel O'Quinn, Alexis Tadie.

In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport’s impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bainbridge, Simon,
Chaudhuri, Supriya,
Cohen, Ashley L.,
Cohen, Sarah R.,
De Bruyn, Frans,
Dine, Philip,
Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie,
Mostefai, Ourida,
Nash, Richard,
O’Quinn, Daniel,
Regier, Alexander,
Tadié, Alexis,
Turcot, Laurent,
Whale, John,
HerausgeberIn:
O'Quinn, Daniel,
Tadie, Alexis ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 17 Colour Images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Classical Lineages
  • What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650–1800
  • Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters
  • Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity
  • Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses
  • Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751
  • Animals as Heroes of the Hunt
  • Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia to Arabomania
  • Part Three: The Mediation of Sports
  • Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau’s Republican Theory
  • Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency
  • At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period
  • Part Four: The Sporting Body
  • Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Italy and France
  • Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • “The Physical Powers of Man”: The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century
  • What is Training?
  • Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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