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Can I read Becoming Centaur : Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship on EtoBox?
Becoming Centaur : Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship by Monica Mattfeld is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Becoming Centaur : Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship about?
<p>In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society.</p><p>Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via the image of the centaur, into something other—something powerful, awe-inspiring, and mythical. Focusing on the manuals, memoirs, satires, images, and ephemera produced by some of the period’
Who reads Becoming Centaur : Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Monica Mattfeld
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271079745
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Linguistics, Performing Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25