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Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Hawkins, Ann R.
Bistline, Erin N.
Blackwell, Catherine S.

Paperback

Series: SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

FictionLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1438485549
ISBN13: 9781438485546
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jul 2 2022
Pages: 399
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Illuminates the ways games--from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war--were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.

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