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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,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bainbridge, Simon (Contribuidor), Chaudhuri, Supriya (Contribuidor), Cohen, Ashley L. (Contribuidor), Cohen, Sarah R. (Contribuidor), De Bruyn, Frans (Contribuidor), Dine, Philip (Contribuidor), Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie (Contribuidor), Mostefai, Ourida (Contribuidor), Nash, Richard (Contribuidor), O'Quinn, Daniel (Editor , Contribuidor), Regier, Alexander (Contribuidor), Tadie, Alexis (Editor ), Tadié, Alexis (Contribuidor), Turcot, Laurent (Contribuidor), Whale, John (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Temas:
Sports > Social aspects > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Classical Lineages
  • What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650-1800
  • Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters
  • Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity
  • Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses
  • Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751
  • Animals as Heroes of the Hunt
  • Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia to Arabomania
  • Part Three: The Mediation of Sports
  • Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau's Republican Theory
  • Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency
  • At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period
  • Part Four: The Sporting Body
  • Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Italy and France
  • Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • "The Physical Powers of Man": The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century
  • What is Training?
  • Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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