British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

by Sharon Harrow

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, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036788111X
• ISBN13: 9780367881115
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"