Under Queensberry Rules, So to Speak’
Some Versions of a Metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12895433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kasia Boddy (0000-0003-0821-5826, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 398-422 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sport in History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-0263 • E-ISSN: 1746-0271 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17460263.2011.646835 |
| OpenAlex | W2041344073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay considers the development of the Queensberry Rules in the 1860s and their subsequent history as a metaphor for regulation. Unlike other codes introduced in the period, the Queensberry Rules did not simply regularize existing practices; they suggested that an activity that the law refused to accept was a sport (prizefighting) could be refashioned to make it closely resemble an activity (sparring) whose sporting credentials were clear. Since the 1860s, the figurative uses of the Queensberry Rules have been many, but at every stage, a comparison with boxing control reveals just what (socially, politically and morally) a particular society is prepared to tolerate. The essay explores what the evocation of the Queensberry Rules reveals in a variety of legal and military contexts
Aesthetics · Art · Control (management · Evocation · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Metaphor · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · American Sports and Literature · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |