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The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than
is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous
with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the
significant role that fiction plays in early modern European
culture, not only in a variety of its literary genres, but also in
its formation of philosophical ideas, political theories, and the
law. The volume explores these uses of fiction in a series of
interrelated case studies, ranging from the Italian Renaissance to
the French Revolution and examining the work of, among others,
Montaigne, Corneille, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Diderot. It
asks: Where does fiction live, and thrive? Under what conditions,
and to what ends? It suggests that fiction is best understood not
as a genre or a discipline but, instead, as a frontier: one that
demarcates literary genres and disciplines of knowledge and which,
crucially, allows for the circulation of ideas between them.
Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent
substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship
between literature and sport has been little explored. Sport,
Literature, Society looks at a wide variety of case studies ranging
from Japan to England, from India to Australia and covers sports as
diverse as cycling, football, wrestling and boxing. It concentrates
on historical perspectives. The contributors are all academics of
international reputation and include historians of sport and
literary scholars. Literature may shape our perceptions and
reactions to sport as much as sport may inform our reading. As
mimetic practice, as aesthetic object, as imaginative release,
sport is analogous to literature and the other arts; at the same
time, it can become the subject of literary, visual or musical
elaborations. Literature often conceptualises the place and role of
sport in culture and society. Indeed, sport inhabits literature in
ways that have not been adequately studied. Sport studies have
investigated the relationships between sport and society,
education, gender, nation, and class. To look again at these
relationships through the prism of literature enables us to change
our focus and to assess the centrality of sport in culture. This
book was published as a special issue of the International Journal
of the History of Sport.
This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and
literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadie traces how
perceptions and representations of language move from a dominance
of the spoken work to a dominance of the written word; and this is
echoed in the order of the five chapters on conversation, gesture,
theatre, fiction, and print. Tadie offers a reading of Sterne's
works, arguing that the use of language lies at the centre of
Sterne's art; he approaches the historical dimension of the texts
in the context of eighteenth-century theories of language. He
brings into focus the heterogeneity of Sterne's texts; and he
demonstrates how Sterne's awareness for the variations of language
links up with his interest in the form of the book, and with the
use of all the potentialities of print. The study broaches the
issue of the 'rise of the novel' in the eighteenth century. it
refuses the idea of progress, or of slow emergence of the novel in
the eighteenth century, which would lead progressively from Defoe
to the Fielding-Richardson debate, to a possible view of Sterne as
the great ironist of the form of the novel. Tadie asserts that
Sterne's writings do not simply address the nature of the novel,
but they engage with all the forms of language representation made
available by the culture of the age.
In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a
definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became
the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and
boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good
health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings.
Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts
important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth
century. Editors Daniel O'Quinn and Alexis Tadie have gathered
together an array of European and North American scholars to
critically examine the educational, political, and medical contexts
that separated sports from other physical activities. The volume
reveals how the mediation of sporting activities, through match
reports, pictures, and players, transcended the field of
aristocratic patronage and gave rise to the social and economic
forces we now associate with sports. In Sporting Cultures,
1650-1850 , O'Quinn and Tadie successfully lay the groundwork for
future research on the complex intersection of power, pleasure, and
representation in sports culture.
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