The world in play
Subtitle: portraits of a Victorian concept
By: Matthew Kaiser
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804776080
Subjects: Play in literature; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the world in play; title: Fair play in an ugly world : the politics of nautical melodrama; title: Toying with the future in Wuthering Heights; title: A joy on the precipice of death : Muir and Stevenson in California; title: Wilde's folly.