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Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.
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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...
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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.
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...
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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