Title: Serious play
First published: 1999
Description: Queen Victoria was famously not amused, and the age to which she gave her name is not generally known for its playfulness or sense of fun. But play was pervasive in Victorian society and in the realist novels that were central to that culture. In Serious Play, J.

Jeffrey Franklin examines the role of play in three areas - gambling, theatricality, and aesthetic theory - demonstrating in the process how the realist novel served as a vehicle for play while play in turn entered and helped define the form of realism.
Subjects: History, Performing arts in literature, Literature and society, Realism in literature, Literary form, History and criticism, Play in literature, English fiction, Gambling in literature, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR868.R4 F73 1999