Overview

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, 16501850 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 have 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, 16501850 , O'Quinn and Tadi successfully lay the groundwork for future research on the complex intersection of power, pleasure, and representation in sports culture.

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Author:   Daniel O'Quinn ,  Alexis Tadie
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781487500320

ISBN 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
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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"

Reviews

This 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 Information

Daniel 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.

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