Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

Published by University of Toronto Press 2018

Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

Edited by: Daniel O'Quinn and Alexis Tadie

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487510732

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

O'Quinn Daniel :

Daniel O’Quinn is a professor in the Department of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.
Tadie Alexis :

Alexis Tadié is a professor of English at the Université of Paris, Sorbonne.

Reviews

Jayne Lewis:

"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."

Alexander H. Pitofsky, Appalachian State University:

"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."

E. A. Sanabria:

"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."

Sharon Harrow, Department of English, Shippensburg University:

"The critical landscape of sport studies has been changing, and this volume is a welcome addition to scholarship that engages with the cultural practices of sport. The writing is sophisticated, and the essays offer compelling and original arguments."

Donna Landry, School of English, University of Kent:

"Sporting Cultures absolutely raises the bar for research on sporting culture – I consider it to be a serious advancement in the field of the cultural history of sport. Well aware of the current scholarship in the field of history-of-sport, O’Quinn and Tadié have shaped an approach that makes Sporting Cultures an original, significant, and rigorous contribution. Not merely a collection of short stories or micronarratives, Sporting Cultures consistently builds and accumulates arguments and turns satisfyingly again and again to questions raised by previous sections."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Daniel O’Quinn and Alexis Tadié Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part One: Classical Lineages
What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650–1800 Frans De Bruyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters Daniel O’Quinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity Ashley L. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses
Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751 Richard Nash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Animals as Heroes of the Hunt Sarah R. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia to Arabomania Philip Dine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Part Three: The Mediation of Sports
Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau’s Republican Theory Ourida Mostefai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency John Whale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period Simon Bainbridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Part Four: The Sporting Body
Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Italy and France Laurent Turcot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
“The Physical Powers of Man”: The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century Alexis Tadié Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
What is Training? Alexander Regier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering Supriya Chaudhuri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 17 Colour Images

eBook

Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9781487510732