The world in play : portraits of a Victorian concept /

19th-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. The playful child became a symbol for the future. This book explores the extent to which play pervades 19th-century literature and culture.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaiser, Matthew (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Play in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Jeu dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Play in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the world in play
  • Fair play in an ugly world : the politics of nautical melodrama
  • Toying with the future in Wuthering Heights
  • A joy on the precipice of death : Muir and Stevenson in California
  • Wilde's folly.

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