British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

Examining the underexplored intersection of sport literature and culture this collection situates sport within multiple contexts including religion labor leisure time politics nationalism gender play and science. A poetics literature and culture of sport swelled during the era influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding. Taken together the essays offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.