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Kristen Guest
University of Chicago Press

Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity

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AuthorKristen Guest
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
PublishedJan 12 2019
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780226589510
Dimensions8.9 X 6 X 0.8 inches
Weight 0.9 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Modern - General
LanguageEnglish

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Book Description

As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities--from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and therapy--and have figured heavily in the history of natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Most accounts of the equine-human relationship, however, fail to address the last few centuries of Western history, focusing instead on pre-1700 interactions. Equestrian Cultures fills in the gap, telling the story of how prominently horses continue to figure in our lives, up to the present day.

Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld place the modern period front and center in this collection, illuminating the largely untold story of how the horse has responded to the accelerated pace of modernity. The book's contributors explore equine cultures across the globe, drawing from numerous interdisciplinary sources to show how horses have unexpectedly influenced such distinctively modern fields as photography, anthropology, and feminist theory. Equestrian Cultures boldly steps forward to redefine our view of the most recent developments in our long history of equine partnership and sets the course for future examinations of this still-strong bond.

Author Bio

Dr. Kristen Guest's research interests are in nineteenth century theatre and Victorian popular culture. "I have published on Victorian melodrama, cannibalism, and on popular authors such as Marie Corelli (the first Big bestseller in the modern sense of the term) and Isabella Beeton (the nineteenth-century Martha Stewart, minus the prison time).

I am currently at work on a SSHRCC funded project focusing on Victorian detective fiction that I hope to publish as a scholarly monograph. This project is exciting for me because it extends my interests popular culture and theatre. It will also include a chapter on depictions of policing and detection in western Canada in popular fiction about the North West Mounted Police. Since taking up residence in Prince George, my husband and I have also tried to explore northern BC as much as possible.

Source: University of Northern British Columbia

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