{"product_id":"sporting-cultures-16501850-9781487500320","title":"Sporting Cultures 16501850","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSporting Cultures, 16501850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409136689495,"sku":"9781487500320","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487500320.jpg?v=1730505574","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sporting-cultures-16501850-9781487500320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}