The world in play : portraits of a Victorian concept /
Kaiser, Matthew.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English literature
Play in literature.