British sporting literature and culture in the long eighteenth century / edited by Sharon Harrow, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Harrow, Sharon, editor.; EBSCOhost
2015
PR778.S67 B75 2015
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Title British sporting literature and culture in the long eighteenth century / edited by Sharon Harrow, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.
ISBN 9781317171423 (electronic bk.)
131717142X (electronic bk.)
9781472465085
1472465083
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 232 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 40025602176
Call Number PR778.S67 B75 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/3579
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Harrow, Sharon, editor.
Added Corporate Author EBSCOhost
Series British literature in context in the long eighteenth century.
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Part I: Contexts
"Wholesome recreations and cheering influences": Popular recreation and social elites in eighteenth-century Britain / Emma Griffin
Olympism and pastoralism in British sporting literature / Jean Williams
Sporting with clothes: John Collet's prints in the 1770s / Patricia Crown
Part II: Sports
The uses and transformations of Early Modern tennis / Alexis Tadié
Archery in the long eighteenth century / Linda V. Troost
Jockeying for position: Horse culture in poetry, prose, and The New Foundling Hospital for Wit / Donald W. Nichol
Part III: People
Boxing for England: Daniel Mendoza and the theater of sport / Sharon Harrow
Rehearsing Leander: Byron and swimming in the long eighteenth century / Jack D'Amico.

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