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Serious Play : the Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel /

Queen Victoria was famously not amused, and the age to which she gave her name is not generally known for its playfulness or sense of fun. But play was pervasive in Victorian society and in the realist novels that were central to that culture. In Serious Play, J. Jeffrey Franklin examines the role o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, J. Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:New cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Play and the Novel as a Cultural Form
  • 2. Gambling with Fortuna
  • 3. Performing the Self
  • 4. Theorizing the Aesthetic Citizen
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index