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Becoming Centaur:

Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
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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.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Of Horses and Men

1 William Cavendish and Hobbesian Horsemanship

2 Riding Houses and Polite Equestrianism

3 Astley’s Amphitheatre

4 Henry William Bunbury and the Mock Manuals of Horsemanship

Notes

Bibliography

Index


Becoming Centaur deftly blends cultural, political, and human-animal history. It is a masterful case study of how a particular social group—in this case elite horsemen—can shed light on broader cultural and political trends, both illustrating and complicating dominant narratives of change over time.”

—Ingrid H. Tague, Journal of Modern History

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