Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850

Daniel O’Quinn is a professor in the Department of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.Alexis Tadié is a professor of English at the Université of Paris, Sorbonne.

"This collection of essays, edited and introduced by O’Quinn and Tadié, highlights continuities between physical activities of the early modern period and contemporary pursuits…While erudite and useful, this collection is best for upper-division or graduate studies."- E. A. Sanabria (Choice Connect October 2018 vol. 56 # 2) "Viewed together, [the essays collected in this book] argue persuasively that by continuing to scrutinize sports in the long eighteenth century, we will enhance our understanding of the period’s most significant social forces and trends."- Alexander H. Pitofsky, Appalachian State University (European Romantic Review, vol 30 no 4) "This Olympian volume charts the rise of modern sports in British and French culture over a very long eighteenth century…Individual essays tackle not only specific sports and athletes but athleticism’s place in philosophy, bodily discipline, and medicine."- Jayne Lewis (Studies in English Literature 1500-1900)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAlexis Tadié and Daniel O’QuinnI Classical LineagesChapter 1: "What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650-1800"Frans De Bruyn, Université d’OttawaChapter 2: "Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters"Daniel O’Quinn, University of GuelphChapter 3: "Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity"Ashley Cohen, Georgetown UniversityII Sporting Animals and their UsesChapter 4: "Turf Wars: Violence, Politics and the Newmarket Riot of 1751"Richard Nash, University of Indiana-BloomingtonChapter 5: "Animals as Heroes of the Hunt"Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New YorkChapter 6: "Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: from Anglophilia to Arabomania"Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, GalwayIII The Mediation of SportsChapter 7: "Sport and the Body Politics: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau’s Republican Theory"Ourida Mostefai, Brown UniversityChapter 8: "Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency"John Whale, University of LeedsChapter 9: "At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period"Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster UniversityIV The Sporting BodyChapter 10: "Sports, Recreation and Medicine in 16th to 18th Century Italy and France"Laurent Turcot, Université de Québec à Trois-RivièresChapter 11: "Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the 17th and 18th Cneturies"Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Université Paris 8Chapter 12: "The Physical Powers of Man:" The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century"Alexis Tadié, Université Paris-SorbonneChapter 13: "What is training?"Alexander Regier, Rice UniversityCoda"Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: the ambiguous origins of mountaineering in India"Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur UniversityBibliographyContributorsIndex