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  1. The world in play
    portraits of a Victorian concept
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif. ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    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.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804778947
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    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Spiel <Motiv>; English literature; Play in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 203 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. The world in play
    portraits of a Victorian concept
    Published: [2012], (c)2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    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... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    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 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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