Sports and sociability in Britain in the long eighteenth century / edited by Caroline Bertonèche and Alexis Tadié.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huggins, Mike, author.

Jackson, Ben (Historian), author.

Amblard, Marion, author.

Whale, John C., author.

Labrune, Pierre, 1990- author.

Folliot, Laurent, author.

Hortolland, Pauline, 1994- author.

Bainbridge, Simon, 1965- author.

Wrobel, Claire, author.

O'Halloran, Meiko, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Bertonèche, Caroline, editor, author.

Tadié, Alexis, 1963- editor, author.

Liverpool University Press, publisher.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:10.

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2634-8047 ; 2025:10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Great Britain--18th century.

Sports.

Sports--Social aspects--Great Britain--18th century.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.

Great Britain.

Sports--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Sports and sociability in Britain in the long 18th century

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"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."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Sports in the British world of the eighteenth century / Caroline Bertonèche and Alexis Tadié

I. Sports and Social Practices

Cockfighting, Associativity and English Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century / Mike Huggins

Blood Sports, Sociability, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century England / Ben Jackson

Archery and Sociability: The Royal Company of Archers in Edinburgh, 1775-1822 / Marion Amblard

Pugilism, Popularity, and Cultural Appropriation in the Regency / John Whale

Inventing the 'Noble Art': Boxing and the Taming of Violence (1740s-1790s) / Pierre Labrune and Kimberley Page-Jones

II. Sports, Society, and the Natural World

'The quivering Nations sport': the Creation as work and play in James Thomson's Seasons / Laurent Folliot

Swimming in the long eighteenth century / Alexis Tadié

"Like spirit-winged chariots": Shelley and Recreational Sailing / Pauline Hortolland

'A group... of apparently aerial beings': Sociability and the British Summit in the long Eighteenth Century / Simon Bainbridge

Between Solitude and Sociability: Mountaineering in Ann Radcliffe's The romance of the Forest (1791) / Claire Wrobel

Climbing Mount Parnassus: Keats among the clouds / Meiko O'Halloran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781836245278

1836245270

OCLC:

1521897481

Publisher Number:

CIPO000269580