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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cropper, Corry (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Sports > France > History > 19th century.
Sports > Political aspects > France.
Sports > Social aspects > France > History > 19th century.
Sports and state > France.
Sports > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sports > Aspect politique > France.
Sports > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sports > Politique gouvernementale > France.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Sociology of Sports.
Sports
Sports and state
Sports > Political aspects
Sports > Social aspects
Sport
Sport > sociala aspekter > historia > Frankrike > 1800-talet.
Sport > politiska aspekter > historia > Frankrike > 1800-talet.
France
Frankreich
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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