Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America
Introduction : from snapdragon to three-card loo : rediscovering nineteenth-century games / Ann R. Hawkins, Miles A. Kimball, Erin N. Bistline, Allison Whitney, and Catherine S. Blackwell -- Bodies in play : boxing, dance, and the science of recreation / Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfiel...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Albany
SUNY Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : from snapdragon to three-card loo : rediscovering nineteenth-century games / Ann R. Hawkins, Miles A. Kimball, Erin N. Bistline, Allison Whitney, and Catherine S. Blackwell -- Bodies in play : boxing, dance, and the science of recreation / Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield -- Baseball in the frame of Gilded-Age America / Matthew Von Vogt -- "We are only horses and don't know" : sport and danger in fox hunting / Erin N. Bistline -- "The memory game" : play, trauma, and great expectations / Sean Grass -- Seeing Victorian culture through croquet's "treacherous wire portal" / Catherine S. Blackwell -- Acting charades in 1873 : girls and the stakes of the game / Heather Fitzsimmons Frey -- Dangerous games : the advent of wargaming in the nineteenth century / Andrew Byers -- The United States as wonderland : British literature, U.S. nationalism, and nineteenth-century children's and family board and card games / Michelle Beissel Heath -- Gaming the Great Exhibition of 1851 : children's board games, display, and imperial power / Megan A. Norcia -- Teetotum lives : mediating globalization in the nineteenth-century board game / Siobhan Carroll -- What did they play, and what does this say? : a quantitative and cultural analysis of British collected games in the nineteenth century through the games and research database / Maurice Suckling -- Professor Hoffmann's Victorian puzzles and stage magic / Andrew Rhoda -- "An endless round of delights" : materializing the toy theatre / Jennie MacDonald -- The game of authors, 1861-1900 : a case history / Maura Ives "This book illuminates the ways that games--from baseball cards to board games, poker to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war -- were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the US and UK"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xv, 383 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781438485553 978-1-4384-8555-3 |