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