Playing at Monarchy Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, Mérimée, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the
כותר |
Playing at Monarchy Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France / Corry Cropper. |
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מוציא לאור |
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press |
מדפיס |
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE |
שנה |
2008 |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-233) and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Paume Anyone? 2. The Spanish Bullfight in France 3. Trictrac and Chess as Models of Historical Discourse 4. Of Rabbits and Kings 5. Fencing and Aristocratic Resistance during the Third Republic 6. Olympic Restoration Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (272 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2008. |
מספר מערכת |
997010718569305171 |
תצוגת MARC
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