Slantwise Moves
Subtitle: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 19, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780812250619
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (Material Texts)