Author: Frederic Gordon Roe
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Category : Painters, British
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Sporting Prints of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Author: Frederic Gordon Roe
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Category : Painters, British
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Painters, British
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The Connoisseur
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Old English Sporting Prints and Their History
Author: Ralph Nevill
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Category : Sporting prints
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Sporting prints
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Books for All
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Sharon Harrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131717142X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131717142X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
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.
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The Nineteenth Century and After
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Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Sport and Modernity
Author: Richard Gruneau
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509501584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School to Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as a distinctive field of practice in western societies. Examining subjects including the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity, representations of sport in nineteenth-century England, Nazism, and modern "mega-events" such as the Olympics and the World Cup, he seeks to show how sport developed into an arena which articulated competing understandings of the kinds of people, bodies and practices best suited to the modern western world. This book thereby explores with brio and sophistication how the ever-changing economic, social, and political relations of modernity have been produced and reproduced, and sometimes also opposed and escaped, through sport, from the Enlightenment to the rise of neoliberalism, as well as examining how the study of exercise, athletics, the body, and the spectacle of sport can deepen our understanding of the nature of modernity. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the sociology and history of sport, sociology of culture, cultural history, and cultural studies.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509501584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School to Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as a distinctive field of practice in western societies. Examining subjects including the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity, representations of sport in nineteenth-century England, Nazism, and modern "mega-events" such as the Olympics and the World Cup, he seeks to show how sport developed into an arena which articulated competing understandings of the kinds of people, bodies and practices best suited to the modern western world. This book thereby explores with brio and sophistication how the ever-changing economic, social, and political relations of modernity have been produced and reproduced, and sometimes also opposed and escaped, through sport, from the Enlightenment to the rise of neoliberalism, as well as examining how the study of exercise, athletics, the body, and the spectacle of sport can deepen our understanding of the nature of modernity. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the sociology and history of sport, sociology of culture, cultural history, and cultural studies.