By Egan, Pierce; Snowdon, David; Egan, Pierce
This publication received the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for activities historical past (2013)
This e-book makes a speciality of the literary contribution made by way of the pugilistic writing of Pierce Egan (c. 1772-1849), choosing the weather that rendered Egan’s sort specific and reading the methods his writing invigorated the wearing narrative. specifically, the writer analyses Egan’s mixture of artistic imagery and linguistic exuberance in the commentaries of the Boxiana sequence (1812-29). The e-book explores the metropolitan and wearing jargon utilized by the varied diversity of characters that inhabited Egan’s ‘Pugilistic Hemisphere’ and appears at Egan’s exploitation of prizefighting’s theatricality. one other major subject is the position of pugilistic reporting in perpetuating stereotypical notions in terms of British nationwide id, army readiness and morality. attention of Egan’s metropolitan rambles is complemented via dialogue of the heterogeneity, spectacle and social dynamics of the prize ring and its reportage. The booklet lines Egan’s impression in the course of the 19th century and, importantly, evaluates his impact at the next improvement of wearing journalism
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1, 2. 68. 54 Iain McCalman and Maureen Perkins, ‘Popular Culture’ in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. 220. 51 The Rise in Popularity of Pugilism and its Reporting 29 Brailsford cites Egan’s publications as ‘necessary’, but it is a conditional endorsement which warns of ‘the f lights of fancy to which his pre-Dickensian linguistic f lourishes frequently led him’. 57 This book concentrates on, primarily, Pierce Egan and the Boxiana series. Egan’s other pugilistic writing, including his 1820s newspapers, are treated as Boxiana-style work, with Jon Bee’s Boxiana IV forming an integral part.
The Rise in Popularity of Pugilism and its Reporting 27 money to be wagered. 322). Hefty financial stakes increased the pressure on the referees, and there were fewer volunteers prepared to risk incurring the wrath of the losers in contentious fight outcomes. In a period of increased industrial and economic strain the number of bank holidays was reduced from forty (1825) to four (1834) and, in this social climate, unlimited leisure time was frowned upon. This proved detrimental to the prize-ring and it lost many of its backers.
30 Chapter 1 language, but this element was accentuated in the pages of the Boxiana series through the preponderance of pugilistic jargon, particularly in the fight commentaries, which was in addition to the more common metropolitan slang. This trait surely contributes to Boxiana’s reputation as some abstruse branch of sporting literature, and accordingly treated as a curio. I look at how the f lash language was identifiable with the Fancy, and the social implications of this counter-culture that was regarded with suspicion.