Becoming centaur: eighteenth-century masculinity and English horsemanship

✍ Scribed by Mattfeld, Monica

Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Series: Animalibus
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

William Cavendish and Hobbesian horsemanship -- Riding houses and polite equestrianism -- Astley's amphitheatre -- Henry William Bunbury and the mock manuals of horsemanship.;"Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn influenced performances of gender. Examines the agential influence of horses in their riders' lives, horses on stage and the early circus, and the politicization of human-animal being"--

✦ Table of Contents

William Cavendish and Hobbesian horsemanship --
Riding houses and polite equestrianism --
Astley's amphitheatre --
Henry William Bunbury and the mock manuals of horsemanship.

✦ Subjects

Équitation--Angleterre--Histoire--18e siècle;Horsemanship;Horsemanship--England--History--18th century;Horsemen and horsewomen;Horsemen and horsewomen--England--History--18th century;Human-animal relationships;Human-animal relationships--England--History--18th century;Masculinité--Angleterre--Histoire--18e siècle;Masculinity;Masculinity--England--History--18th century;Relations homme-animal--Angleterre--Histoire--18e siècle;History;Ressources Internet;Horsemanship -- England -- History -- 18th c

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