| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
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Paume anyone? Representing real tennis after the tennis court oath -- The Spanish bullfight in France : Goya, Gautier, and Mérimée -- Trictrac and chess as models of historical discourse : chance in the works of Balzac and Mérimée -- Of rabbits and kings : hunting and upward mobility -- Fencing and aristocratic resistance during the third republic -- Olympic restoration : Coubertin and the European monarchy -- Conclusion : imitation and resistance |
| Summary |
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 most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France, while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France, Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Sports -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Sports -- Political aspects -- France
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Sports -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Sports and state -- France
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
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Sports -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Sports -- Political aspects -- France.
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Sports -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Sports and state -- France.
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Sports
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Sports and state
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Sports -- Political aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sport
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Sport -- sociala aspekter -- historia -- Frankrike -- 1800-talet.
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Sport -- politiska aspekter -- historia -- Frankrike -- 1800-talet.
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France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803218994 |
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0803218990 |
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9786611958374 |
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6611958371 |
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