Sports and sociability in Britain in the long eighteenth century

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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The age of Enlightenment was also an age of development of sporting and physical activities. This book aims to study the forms of sociability induced and defined by such activities in the eighteenth century. By bringing together archival work and textual analysis the book insists on the definitions and representations of sporting practices. These range from traditional pastimes such as hunting or archery, to more novel forms of recreation such as swimming or mountaineering. The book investigates the modes of association which were set in motion either through participation, or through various forms of spectatorship (ranging from watching to betting). Societies, associations, clubs, and more informal gatherings characterised this burgeoning interest for sports. They provoked new interactions between individuals and the social group, new forms of distinction as well, and transformed the apprehension of the natural world. Through a variety of case studies, the book provides an original perspective on the transformations of sociability in the eighteenth century. It integrates the findings of historical inquiry into groups and associations linked with sports as well as the analysis of the literary projections of such physical activities, notably by the Romantic poets from Thomson to Keats.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-14
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:442 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781836245278

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Alexis Tadié is professor of English Literature at Sorbonne Université, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He has held visiting research fellowships at various universities, including recently Durham University and Trinity College, Cambridge. Caroline Bertonèche is Professor of British Literature at Université Grenoble Alpes. She has published several articles on Romantic poetry. She is the author of four monographs on John Keats. She is a Fellow the Royal Society of Arts, of the Royal Historical Society and an honorary President of the SERA (Société d’Études du Romantisme Anglais).

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Introduction: Sports in the British world of the eighteenth century Caroline Bertonèche and Alexis TadiéI. Sports and Social PracticesMike Huggins Cockfighting, associativity and English culture in the long eighteenth centuryBen Jackson Game-shooting, Sociability, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century EnglandMarion Amblard Archery and Sociability: The Contribution of The Royal Company of Archers to Edinburgh's Social, Cultural and Artistic Life between 1775 and 1822John Whale Pugilism, Popularity, and Cultural Appropriation in the RegencyPierre Labrune Inventing the "Noble Art": Boxing and the Taming of Violence (1740s-1790s)II. Sports, Society, and the Natural WorldLaurent Folliot 'The quivering Nations sport': Animal Play and Human Pastimes in Thomson's SeasonsAlexis Tadié Swimming in the long eighteenth centuryPauline Hortolland "Like spirit-winged chariots": Shelley and Recreational SailingSimon Bainbridge 'A group... of apparently aerial beings': Sociability and the British Summit in the long Eighteenth CenturyClaire Wrobel Between Solitude and Sociability: Mountaineering in Ann Radcliffe's The romance of the Forest (1791)Meiko O'Halloran Keats among the clouds