The world in play

portraits of a Victorian concept

By Matthew Kaiser

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Publish Date

2012

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

203

Description:

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.

subjects: Play in literature, English literature, History and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century

Times: 19th century