Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

✍ Scribed by Daniel O'Quinn (editor); Alexis Tadie (editor)

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 384
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.

✦ Table of Contents

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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