Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Snapdragon to Threecard Loo: Rediscovering NineteenthCentury GamesAnn R. Hawkins, Miles A. Kimball, Erin N. Bistline, Allison Whitney, and Catherine S. BlackwellSection I: Games in Motion1. Bodies in Play: Boxing, Dance, and the Science of RecreationKristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield2. Baseball in the Frame of Gilded-Age AmericaMatthew Von Vogt3. "We are only horses and don't know": Sport and Danger in Fox HuntingErin N. BistlineSection II: Communal Games4. "The Memory Game": Play, Trauma, and Great ExpectationsSean Grass5. Seeing Victorian Culture through Croquet's "Treacherous Wire Portal"Catherine S. Blackwell6. Acting Charades in 1873: Girls and the Stakes of the GameHeather Fitzsimmons FreySection III: Playing the World7. Dangerous Games: The Advent of Wargaming in the Nineteenth CenturyAndrew Byers8. The United States as Wonderland: British Literature, U.S. Nationalism, and NineteenthCentury Children's and Family Board and Card GamesMichelle Beissel Heath9. Gaming the Great Exhibition of 1851: Children's Board Games, Display, and Imperial PowerMegan A. Norcia10. Teetotum Lives: Mediating Globalization in the NineteenthCentury Board GameSiobhan CarrollSection IV: Books, Boards, and Other Objects11. What Did They Play, and What Does This Say?: A Quantitative and Cultural Analysis of British Collected Games in the Nineteenth Century through the Games Research DatabaseMaurice Suckling12. Professor Hoffmann's Victorian Puzzles and Stage MagicAndrew Rhoda13. "An Endless Round of Delights": Materializing the Toy TheatreJennie MacDonald14. The Game of Authors, 1861–1900: A Case HistoryMaura IvesContributorsGeneral IndexGames Index

"In their carefully edited and meticulously researched essay collection devoted to nineteenth-century games (and, by extension, to transatlantic 'cultures of play'), Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives lead a remarkably cohesive 18-person team of game historians, literary and media scholars, and even a professional game designer into the 'unfamiliar wonderland,' as they term it, of nineteenth-century game-play." — ALH Online Review