9780801476082-0801476089-The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

ISBN-13: 9780801476082
ISBN-10: 0801476089
Edition: Updated
Author: Elliott J. Gorn
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801476082
ISBN-10: 0801476089
Edition: Updated
Author: Elliott J. Gorn
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback 328 pages

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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America (ISBN-13: 9780801476082 and ISBN-10: 0801476089), written by authors Elliott J. Gorn, was published by Cornell University Press in 2010. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Boxing, Individual Sports, History of Sports, Sports Miscellaneous, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of Boston had become the nation's first true sports celebrity, an American icon. The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him―Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'―and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who would not rather be Sullivan than Leo Tolstoy."―from the Afterword

Praise for the first edition―

"Gorn is an adventurous historian with a talent for informed speculation. He has written an exciting narrative history of boxing and then gone a step further to ask a series of questions that extend his focus to the whole of nineteenth-century American culture."―The Nation

"Gorn combines colorful, witty, powerful narrative with enormously sophisticated analytical rigor, and the result is a book that anyone remotely interested in America's nineteenth century should read."―Virginia Quarterly Review

"Gorn's finely conceived and craftsmanlike book catches the spirit of a young nation rushing to industrialization and how prize fighting was affected by, and came to reflect, much of the national mood and character. The Manly Art is first-rate social history rendered in felicitous prose."―Chicago Sun-Times

"The Manly Art is an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century American culture. Writing with clarity, vigor, and grace, Gorn combines detailed narrative with convincing interpretations. He offers the reader a judicious selection of quotations from the sporting press that capture the drama, sensuality, and brutality of the ring and its craftsmen."―The Journal of American History


Elliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other. This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

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