Toys in the Age of Wonder: Science Fiction, Society and the Symbolism of Play

by Mark Rich

By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation. In these decades, too, a new type of wonder tale was being brought to maturity by a Poe-inspired Jules Verne. The modern wonder tale's highly-charged vision expressed the hopes and the fears, and the delights and the traumas, engendered by "new worlds idealism"--that Western pursuit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786443928
• ISBN13: 9780786443925
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher