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Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France Hardcover – Illustrated, December 1, 2008

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For centuries sports have been used to mask or to uncover important social and political problems, and there is no better example of this than France during the nineteenth century, when it changed from monarchy to empire to republic. Prior to the French Revolution, sports and games were the exclusive domain of the nobility. The revolution, however, challenged the notion of noble privilege, and leisure activities began spreading to all levels of society. Games either evolved from Old Regime spectacles into bourgeois pastimes, such as hunting, or died out altogether, as did trictrac. During this period, sports and games became the symbolic cultural battlefield of an emerging modern state.



Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, Mérimée, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France, while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France, Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today.
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"Anyone interested in French history or the social role of sports in Europe should find Playing at Monarchy well worth the time. Like Robert Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre, Cropper investigates historical 'ways of thinking' with wit and whimsy-in prose congenial to a twenty-first century American audience."—Alex Shakespeare, Sports Literature Association Published On: 2009-03-09

"As fine in analysis as it is broad in scope, Cropper's book, which explores the intersection of sport, culture, history, and literature, represents interdisciplinary studies at their very best."—Hope Christiansen, French Review

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Corry Cropper is an associate professor of French studies at Brigham Young University and the author of several articles published in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, the French Review, and French Literature Series.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Nebraska Press; Illustrated edition (December 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803217730
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803217737
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
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I am a professor of French at Brigham Young University where I enjoy teaching all levels of French: introductory literature courses, graduate seminars, business French, courses on French culture and history, and language classes. I research nineteenth-century French literature and culture.

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Insightful. Dr. Cropper's analysis of the importance of French sport in metaphor has far reaching consequences. His work casts a strong light on what motivated Coubertain to develop the modern Olympics as well as the attempted resurrgence of the nobility.
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