Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850

Herausgeber: O'Quinn, Daniel; Tadie, Alexis

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Produktbeschreibung

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 philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century. Editors Daniel O’Quinn and Alexis Tadi¿ave gathered together an array of European and North American scholars to critically examine the educational, political, and medical contexts that separated sports from other physical activities. The volume reveals how the mediation of sporting activities, through match reports, pictures, and players, transcended the field of aristocratic patronage and gave rise to the social and economic forces we now associate with sports. In Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 , O’Quinn and Tadi¿uccessfully lay the groundwork for future research on the complex intersection of power, pleasure, and representation in sports culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781487500320
• ISBN-10: 1487500327
• Artikelnr.: 47972376

Autorenporträt

Edited by Daniel O’Quinn and Alexis Tadié

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alexis Tadié and Daniel O’Quinn
I Classical Lineages
Chapter 1: "What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry,
1650-1800"
Frans De Bruyn, Université d’Ottawa
Chapter 2: "Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial
Encounters"
Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
Chapter 3: "Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity"
Ashley Cohen, Georgetown University
II Sporting Animals and their Uses
Chapter 4: "Turf Wars: Violence, Politics and the Newmarket Riot of 1751"
Richard Nash, University of Indiana-Bloomington
Chapter 5: "Animals as Heroes of the Hunt"
Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York
Chapter 6: "Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: from Anglophilia to
Arabomania"
Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway
III The Mediation of Sports
Chapter 7: "Sport and the Body Politics: Athletic Competitions in
Rousseau’s Republican Theory"
Ourida Mostefai, Brown University
Chapter 8: "Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the
Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency"
John Whale, University of Leeds
Chapter 9: "At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British
Mountaineering in the Romantic Period"
Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University
IV The Sporting Body
Chapter 10: "Sports, Recreation and Medicine in 16th to 18th Century Italy
and France"
Laurent Turcot, Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières
Chapter 11: "Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the
17th and 18th Cneturies"
Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Université Paris 8
Chapter 12: "The Physical Powers of Man:" The Emergence of Physical
Training in the Eighteenth Century"
Alexis Tadié, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Chapter 13: "What is training?"
Alexander Regier, Rice University
Coda
"Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: the ambiguous origins of
mountaineering in India"
Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
Bibliography
Contributors
Index