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Author Mattfeld, Monica, 1982- author.

Title Becoming centaur : eighteenth-century masculinity and English horsemanship / Monica Mattfeld.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Animalibus: of animals and cultures
Animalibus.
Summary "Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn influenced performances of gender. Examines the agential influence of horses in their riders' lives, horses on stage and the early circus, and the politicization of human-animal being"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents William Cavendish and Hobbesian horsemanship -- Riding houses and polite equestrianism -- Astley's amphitheatre -- Henry William Bunbury and the mock manuals of horsemanship.
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Subject Horsemanship -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Horsemanship.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Horsemen and horsewomen -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Horsemen and horsewomen.
Human-animal relationships -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Human-animal relationships.
Masculinity -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Masculinity.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
ISBN 9780271079745 (electronic book)
0271079746 (electronic book)
9780271079721 (electronic book)
027107972X (electronic book)
9780271075778
0271075775