Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale sport, health and exercise in eighteenth-century England
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, UK
Lutterworth Press
2012
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 |
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| Beschreibung: | Front cover; Title page; Quotation; Swimming with Dr Johnsonand Mrs Thrale; Copyright ; Contents; Illustration List and Acknowledgements; Permissions for Quotations; Preface; Part I; Introduction; Exercise; Dr Johnson & Mrs Thrale- some mainly medical notes; Doing things 'differently'; Part II; Chapter 1 Boxing; Chapter 2 Cricket; Chapter 3 Dancing; Chapter 4 Foot-racing, leaping and climbing; Foot-racing; Leaping; Climbing; Chapter 5 Riding; Chapter 6 Skating; Chapter 7 Swimming; Chapter 8 Coach travel; 'Conclusion, in which nothing is concluded'; Bibliography; Back cover Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical exercise, enthroned in an armchair peering short-sightedly at a book. Thanks to the diarist and author Hester Thrale we have many anecdotes that connect Dr Johnson to a variety of sports, and Julia Allen, following Lytton Strachey's advice to attack her subject in unexpected places, uses entries from Dr Johnson's dictionary and anecdotes about the great man as her window into the world of eighteenth-century sport and exercise. Revealing a world both for |
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| ISBN: | 0718840992 9780718840990 9780718892760 0718892763 |