1st Edition
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
By Sharon Harrow
Copyright 2015
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion,... Read more
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Biography
Sharon Harrow is Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.
“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
