The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept

By Matthew Kaiser

Book Overview

The World in Play tells the story of how certain Victorian literary misfits-working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Bront , free-spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde, among others-struggled to find their bearings in a modern world trapped, like Alice, in play, in a ludic microcosm of itself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804776083
• ISBN13: 9780804776080
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"