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Playing at monarchy : sport as metaphor in nineteenth-century France / Corry Cropper

Author
Cropper, Corry
Published
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 247 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780803218994 (electronic bk.)
0803218990 (electronic bk.)
9786611958374
6611958371
1281958379
9781281958372
9780803217737 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0803217730 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
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