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“But not laughing”: horsemanship and the idea of the cavalier in the writings of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle

cam.issuedOnline2018-02-07
dc.contributor.authorChalmers, Hero
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-11T00:31:06Z
dc.date.available2018-12-11T00:31:06Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-02
dc.description.abstractThis article examines William Cavendish’s two treatises on horsemanship printed in 1658 and 1667, respectively. It argues that a close reading of these works in their discursive and iconographic contexts reveals their engagement with a markedly unstable idea of the cavalier as horseman during this period and evinces a far greater degree of self-conscious anxiety concerning questions of governance than previous critics have acknowledged. In particular, it explores Newcastle’s grappling with notions of the cavalier as frivolous man of pleasure and as a figure of monstrosity, conceived of in terms of a troubling hybridity with his horse. This leads to a specific consideration of the ambivalent role played by the figure of the centaur in Newcastle’s equestrian writings, a figure whose contradictory antecedents are played out in its recurrence in the contemporary literature of political controversy.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.33939
dc.identifier.eissn2050-4616
dc.identifier.issn0268-117X
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286627
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2017.1394113
dc.subject43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
dc.subject47 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subject4303 Historical Studies
dc.subject4705 Literary Studies
dc.title“But not laughing”: horsemanship and the idea of the cavalier in the writings of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2017-07-20
prism.issueIdentifier4
prism.publicationDate2017
prism.publicationNameThe Seventeenth Century
prism.volume32
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2017-10-02
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1080/0268117x.2017.1394113

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