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British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

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British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century book

British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

DOI link for British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century book

BySharon Harrow
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 9 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315570303
Pages 248 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315570303
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Harrow, S. (2015). British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315570303

Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction: Playing by the Rules

part |2 pages

Part I Contexts

chapter 1|16 pages

“Wholesome recreations and cheering influences”: Popular Recreation and Social Elites in Eighteenth-Century

ByBritain

chapter 2|20 pages

Olympism and Pastoralism in British Sporting Literature

ByJean Williams

chapter 3|26 pages

Sporting with Clothes: John Collet’s Prints in the 1770s

ByPatricia Crown

part |2 pages

Part II sPorts

chapter 4|22 pages

The Uses and Transformations of Early Modern Tennis

ByAlexis Tadié

chapter 5|20 pages

Archery in the Long Eighteenth Century

ByLinda V. Troost

chapter 6|26 pages

Jockeying for Position: Horse Culture in Poetry, Prose, and The New Foundling Hospital for Wit

part |2 pages

Part III PeoPle

chapter 7|26 pages

Boxing for England: Daniel Mendoza and the Theater of Sport

BySharon Harrow

chapter 8|16 pages

Rehearsing Leander: Byron and Swimming in the Long Eighteenth Century

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