Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de l’ouvrage suivant:
Sports and Sociability in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century (Liverpool University Press, 2025) édité par Caroline Bertonèche et Alexis Tadié et auquel ont contribué plusieurs membres de VALE :
https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836245278
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Table of Contents
| Introduction: Sports in the British world of the eighteenth century Caroline Bertonèche and Alexis Tadié |
| I. Sports and Social Practices |
| Mike Huggins Game-shooting, Associativity and English Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century |
| Ben Jackson Game-shooting, Sociability, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century England |
| Marion Amblard Archery and Sociability: The Contribution of The Royal Company of Archers to Edinburgh’s Social, Cultural and Artistic Life between 1775 and 1822 |
| John Whale Pugilism, Popularity, and Cultural Appropriation in the Regency |
| Pierre Labrune Inventing the « Noble Art »: Boxing and the Taming of Violence (1740s-1790s) |
| II. Sports, Society, and the Natural World |
| Laurent Folliot ‘The quivering Nations sport’: Animal Play and Human Pastimes in Thomson’s Seasons |
| Alexis Tadié Swimming in the long eighteenth century |
| Pauline Hortolland « Like spirit-winged chariots »: Shelley and Recreational Sailing |
| Simon Bainbridge ‘A group… of apparently aerial beings’: Sociability and the British Summit in the long Eighteenth Century |
| Claire Wrobel Between Solitude and Sociability: Mountaineering in Ann Radcliffe’s The romance of the Forest (1791) |
| Meiko O’Halloran Keats among the clouds |
