Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America - Paperback

by Ann R. Hawkins (Editor), Erin N. Bistline (Editor), Catherine S. Blackwell (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Ann R. Hawkins is Assistant Provost for Graduate Education and Research in the Office of the Provost at the State University of New York System Administration. She is the editor of Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History and the nine-volume scholarly edition Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, and coeditor (with Maura Ives) of Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century. Erin N. Bistline is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Catherine S. Blackwell is an independent scholar who specializes in long-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Maura Ives is Professor and Head of the Department of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography and editor of George Meredith's Essay On Comedy and Other New Quarterly Magazine Publications: A Critical Edition.