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Playing at monarchy : sport as metaphor in nineteenth-century France /

Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what sha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cropper, Corry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Paume anyone? Representing real tennis after the tennis court oath
  • The Spanish bullfight in France : Goya, Gautier, and Mérimée
  • Trictrac and chess as models of historical discourse : chance in the works of Balzac and Mérimée
  • Of rabbits and kings : hunting and upward mobility
  • Fencing and aristocratic resistance during the third republic
  • Olympic restoration : Coubertin and the European monarchy
  • Conclusion : imitation and resistance.