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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel O'Quinn , Alexis TadiePublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.740kg ISBN: 9781487500320ISBN 10: 1487500327 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 09 January 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsThis collection of essays, edited and introduced by O'Quinn and Tadie, 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 * This collection of essays, edited and introduced by O'Quinn and Tadi , 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 * Author InformationDaniel O’Quinn is a professor in the Department of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Alexis Tadié is a professor of English at the Université of Paris, Sorbonne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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