British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367881115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Sharon Harrow

Opis

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 inclu

Recenzje

“Apart from being a thoroughly good read, it is also a comprehensive and solid academic study within the field of Cultural Studies which highlights how sports have taken place in and interacted with all kinds of narrative – naturally focussing on the long century of the title, a period which runs roughly from the restoration of Charles II to the throne in1660 to the fall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.” - Katarina Tornborg, Lund University, Nordic Sport Science Forum

Spis treści

Table of contents to come.

O autorze

Sharon Harrow is Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.