“But not laughing”: horsemanship and the idea of the cavalier in the writings of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle
cam.issuedOnline | 2018-02-07 | |
dc.contributor.author | Chalmers, Hero | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-11T00:31:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-11T00:31:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-10-02 | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.doi | 10.17863/CAM.33939 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2050-4616 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0268-117X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286627 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Informa UK Limited | |
dc.publisher.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2017.1394113 | |
dc.subject | 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology | |
dc.subject | 47 Language, Communication and Culture | |
dc.subject | 4303 Historical Studies | |
dc.subject | 4705 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.type | Article | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-07-20 | |
prism.issueIdentifier | 4 | |
prism.publicationDate | 2017 | |
prism.publicationName | The Seventeenth Century | |
prism.volume | 32 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2017-10-02 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1080/0268117x.2017.1394113 |
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