Serious Play : : The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel / / J. Jeffrey Franklin.
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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Franklin, J. Jeffrey, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Serious Play : The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel / J. Jeffrey Franklin. Reprint 2016 Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©1999 1 online resource (250 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Cultural Studies 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 of play in three areas--gambling, theatricality, and aesthetic theory--demonstrating in the process how the realist novel served as a vehicle for play while play in turn entered and helped define the form of realism. Franklin's analysis focuses on close readings of eight novels by Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, William Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, as well as works by Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold. The readings are grounded in histories and cultural studies of gambling, recreation, the stock market, theater and antitheatrical prejudice, the performance of gender roles, working-class protest, aesthetic theory, and especially the novel genre itself. While the treatments of gambling, theatricality, and aesthetics are specific, the book shows how play links each of them to broader, culturally defining issues that Victorian writings frequently express: values versus value, the artificial versus the authentic, and the real versus the illusory. Serious Play demonstrates, as no previous study has, how play functioned as a linchpin concept within the discursive infrastructure of Victorian society, challenging critical commonplaces about the unplayfulness of the Victorians and the ideological conservatism of realism. "Serious Play provides a completely new insight into the Victorian realist novel. . . . All the major theories of play are subjected to penetrating analysis through which their respective shortcomings and their historical conditioning are highlighted, so that the book can also be read as one of the most comprehensive assessments of modern play theories to date." --Wolfgang Iser Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020) English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Gambling in literature. Literary form History 19th century. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Performing arts in literature. Play in literature. Realism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 9783110442526 print 9780812234848 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512803303 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512803303 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781512803303.jpg |
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