Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship

by Monica Mattfeld

Book Overview

In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one's gendered and political positions within society.

Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via the image of the centaur, into something other--something powerful, awe-inspiring, and mythical. Focusing on the manuals, memoirs, satires, images,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271075783
• ISBN13: 9780271075785
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"