...Betty Rizzo The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26105-94b-rizz.q4 5/24/02 1:10 PM Page 70 Equivocations of Gender and Rank: Eighteenth-Century Sporting Women...

...Patricia Crown The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26107-135-crow.q4 5/24/02 1:58 PM Page 119 Sporting with Clothes: John Collet’s Prints in the 1770s...

...Darryl P. Domingo Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Harrow Sharon , ed. British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2015 ). Pp. 232. $107 ...

... facets of the burgeoning leisure industry: theaters, museums, sports, dancing, and tourism. Again, the exhibition is outstanding in showing how crazes for novelty—from spectacular fireworks to the latest celebrities—are structured by sets of conventions that dictate even supposedly spontaneous...

... confess it, though it be true.6 These epigrams found a place in the miscellany world through the popular tradition of the jest-book: the lame beggar’s pun appears in 1727 (A Col- lection of Epigrams, reprinted 1735), 1752 (The Sports of the Muses), 1754 (The Merry Fellow), and 1759 (The Book...

... the divisive party rage to the degrading appetite for cruel sports. But Addison and Steele’s interest in gentler, refined manners had to be compatible with manly courage and readiness for war. If refinement worked against brutal- ity, it also had to avoid the dangers of effeminacy. Markku Peltonnen...

... descriptions of a sport that has given us every- thing from Internet vocabulary to lifestyle paradigms, Samwell s and King s vignettes are important because of what they show us: high performance surfing on waves in the ten- to- twelve- foot foot range breaking onto a dan- gerous volcanic rock shoreline...

... these poems are included in verse collections can also be unexpected. Several miscellanies print “L’Allegro” as a stand-alone piece: The Sports of the Muses (1752), which also includes songs from a version of Comus by John Dalton (to which I will return), and “On May Morning,” opens with “L’Allegro...

... of flower and vegetable gardens; the planting of trees, which led to tree worship; the privileging of certain animals as pets and domestic companions; increas- ing religious objection to animal cruelty and blood sports; greater sense of stewardship toward the land and its inhabitants...

... vocal opposition to animal sports and advised that children not be allowed to amuse them- selves by hurting animals. William Wilberforce evidently relied on a varia- tion of the Aquinian argument in an 1802 parliamentary speech against bull-baiting, warning that such sports “degraded human nature...

... was interested in aerial endeavors, but also in Lunardi as a person. Personal affect, however, applies in special ways to famous people. Lunardi was an early “sporting hero”: he was not disclosing a private self in his letters. His letters and other forms of publicity shaped his character...

... actually helping to set the course for the eighty-year-old women who will hobble along it for the sport of the “gentlemen” betting on the outcome. In general, however, Noggle’s chapter on how women present themselves on the market, as both subjects and objects of taste, makes perfect use...

... Dictionary as both “a place built for the reception of the sick” and “a place for shelter or entertainment.” Cowper certainly takes pride in defending his pets from harm. In The Task, after Cowper’s Hares and the Hospitality of Eighteenth-Century Pet Keeping  8 5 condemning the “detested sport...

... into the vocabulary of rural sports, produces the rabbit of peace out of its tophat without making enough effort to conceal the trick from a vigilant audience. All the above could be, and has been, said by those who do admire Pope’s near-simultaneous achievements, the Essay on Criticism and the Rape...

...: “To play with important truths, to disturb the repose of established tenets, to subtilize objections, and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity” (1825 Works, 6:497). The word play resonates strongly here; the Dictionary’s defi nitions include “To toy; to act with levity”; “To trifl e...

... other sharp criticism of the sport of hunting, especially hawking: “Strange is it that man, who boasts his rationality, his sensibility, and exalted endowments, should call such cruelty sport , and find a barbarous pleasure in the terrors, the cries, and the death, of a feeble and wretched animal!” (34...

... of rustic landscapes and sports. They then exchange pleasantries with George, who has, he announces, exchanged the livery of the hunter, “Adonis,” for that of “his mistress, Venus” (213). While evoking an English dramatic heritage, Cowley’s scene ruralizes The Beggar’s Opera, heightens the tone...

...: The Comick Glass is full of merry Strife, The low Reflection of a Country Life; Grave Tragedy, void of such homely Sports, Is the sad Glass of Cities and of Courts.2 Along with mapping dramatic genres in geographic and sociopolitical terms, the above lines reveal how dramatic mirrors...

... and Mrs. Thrale: Sport, Health, and Exercise in Eighteenth-­Century England (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2012). Pp. xii + 296. 78 ills. £20 paper Allgor, Catherine. Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity (Boulder: Westview, 2013). Pp. xv + 175. $20 paper Andress, David, ed...

..., the figure wears green trunks, which may originally have been in the Scots plaid Dundas often sported in cari- catures.47 This presence alongside Pitt’s orders to “the Reaper to reap...