Title: Slantwise Moves
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.
Subjects: Games, Books and reading, history, Popular culture, united states, United states, social life and customs, History, Books and reading, Popular culture, Social life and customs, Social aspects, Manners and customs