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Book SynopsisSporting Cultures, 16501850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.
Trade Review"This collection of essays, edited and introduced by O’Quinn and Tadié, highlights continuities between physical activities of the early modern period and contemporary pursuits…While erudite and useful, this collection is best for upper-division or graduate studies." -- E. A. Sanabria * Choice Connect October 2018 vol. 56 # 2 *
"Viewed together, [the essays collected in this book] argue persuasively that by continuing to scrutinize sports in the long eighteenth century, we will enhance our understanding of the period’s most significant social forces and trends." -- Alexander H. Pitofsky, Appalachian State University * European Romantic Review, vol 30 no 4 *
"This Olympian volume charts the rise of modern sports in British and French culture over a very long eighteenth century…Individual essays tackle not only specific sports and athletes but athleticism’s place in philosophy, bodily discipline, and medicine." -- Jayne Lewis * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Alexis Tadie 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, Universite 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, Universite de Quebec a Trois-Rivieres Chapter 11: "Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the 17th and 18th Cneturies" Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Universite Paris 8 Chapter 12: "The Physical Powers of Man:" The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century" Alexis Tadie, Universite 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
