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  1. The world in play
    portraits of a Victorian concept
    Author: Kaiser, Matthew
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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    WG191 K13
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    angg670.k13
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    Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, Hauptabteilung
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    41A4050
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780804776080; 0804776083
    Other subjects: English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Play in literature.
    Scope: X, 203 S.
  2. The world in a play
    portraits of a Victorian concept
    Author: Kaiser, Matthew
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Palo Alto, Calif.

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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Standort Holländischer Platz
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    25 Eng PC 0061
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780804776080; 0804776083
    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Spiel <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 203 S.
  3. The world in play
    portraits of a Victorian concept
    Author: Kaiser, Matthew
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780804776080; 0804776083
    RVK Categories: HL 1091 ; HL 1101
    Subjects: Kultur; Englisch; Spiel <Motiv>; Spiel; Literatur
    Scope: X, 203 S.
  4. <<The>> world in play
    portraits of a Victorian concept
    Author: Kaiser, Matthew
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, Hauptabteilung
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780804776080; 0804776083
    Subjects: English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Play in literature
    Scope: X, 203 S.
  5. The World in Play
    Portraits of a Victorian Concept
    Author: Kaiser, Matthew
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

    Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Vi

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804776080
    Scope: Online-Ressource (327 p.)
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    Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Modern Sensation; PART I The World in Play; 1 Mapping the World in Play; PART II Portraits; 2 Fair Play in an Ugly World: The Politics of Nautical Melodrama; 3 Toying with the Future in Wuthering Heights; 4 A Joy on the Precipice of Death: Muir and Stevenson in California; 5 Wilde's Folly; Notes; Index;