Slantwise moves: games, literature, and social invention in nineteenth-century America

Individual, historically located games are as interesting for the particular limits they set as for the specific associative assemblages they enable. This book takes a case-study approach, looking intensively at popular mass-market games of the mid-nineteenth century not to answer what a game is but...

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1. Verfasser: Guerra, Douglas A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Ausgabe:1st edition
Schriftenreihe:Material texts
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Zusammenfassung:Individual, historically located games are as interesting for the particular limits they set as for the specific associative assemblages they enable. This book takes a case-study approach, looking intensively at popular mass-market games of the mid-nineteenth century not to answer what a game is but instead to ask what certain media do and how that doing might offer perspective on the literary questions we have directed at the period
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:253 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780812250619

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