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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Cultural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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