Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English by Monica Mattfeld
By Monica Mattfeld
In this learn of the connection among males and their horses in 17th- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the adventure of horsemanship and the way it outlined one’s gendered and political positions inside society.
Men of the interval used horses to rework themselves, through a twin of the centaur, into whatever other—something robust, awe-inspiring, and legendary. targeting the manuals, memoirs, satires, pictures, and ephemera produced via a few of the period’s such a lot influential equestrians, Mattfeld examines how the innovations and practices of horse husbandry developed in terms of social, cultural, and political existence. She seems heavily on the position of horses on the earth of Thomas Hobbes and William Cavendish; the adjustments in human social habit and horse dealing with ushered in by way of elite using homes resembling Angelo’s Academy and Mr. Carter’s; and the general public belief of equestrian endeavors, from performances at locations akin to Astley’s Amphitheatre to the satire of Henry William Bunbury. all through, Mattfeld indicates how horses aided the functionality of idealized masculinity between groups of riders, in flip influencing how males have been perceived in regard to prestige, recognition, and gender.
Drawing on human-animal experiences, gender stories, and historic reports, Becoming Centaur deals a brand new account of masculinity that reaches past anthropocentrism to think about the position of animals in shaping man.
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