Review paper
The World in Play: A Portrait of a Victorian Concept
Abstract
The extent to which the multifaceted concept of play structures the Victorian sense of self, indeed, the Victorian experience of modernity, has never been fully explored. From the sportive logic underlying Darwin’s theory of natural selection, through the middle-class faith in rational recreation and autotelic amusements, to the political efficacy of holidays in the promotion of national identity, popular debates raged in the nineteenth century...
Paper Details
Title
The World in Play: A Portrait of a Victorian Concept
Published Date
Jan 1, 2009
Journal
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
105 - 129
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