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Pages : 836
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Finding List
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Round Games for All Parties
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Plays for Young People, with Songs and Choruses, Suitable for Private Theatricals
Author: James Barmby
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Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Burton's Amateur Actor
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Pages : 200
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Laboring to Play
Author: Melanie Dawson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time. The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles. From 19th-century parlor games involving grotesque physical contortions to early-20th-century recitations of an idealized past, leisure employments mediated between domestic and public spheres, individuals and class-based affiliations, and ideals of egalitarian social life and visible hierarchies based on privilege. Negotiating these paradigms, home entertainments provided their participants with unique ways of performing displays of individual ambitions within a world of polite social interaction. Laboring to Play deals with subjects as wide ranging as social performances, social history (etiquette and gentility), literary history, representations of childhood, and the history of the book.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time. The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles. From 19th-century parlor games involving grotesque physical contortions to early-20th-century recitations of an idealized past, leisure employments mediated between domestic and public spheres, individuals and class-based affiliations, and ideals of egalitarian social life and visible hierarchies based on privilege. Negotiating these paradigms, home entertainments provided their participants with unique ways of performing displays of individual ambitions within a world of polite social interaction. Laboring to Play deals with subjects as wide ranging as social performances, social history (etiquette and gentility), literary history, representations of childhood, and the history of the book.
Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society
Author: Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412966701
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
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Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412966701
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
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Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.
Round Games for all parties: a collection of the greatest variety of family amusements for fireside or pic-nic, etc
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Pages : 244
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Round Games for All Parties: a Collection of the Greatest Variety of Family Amusements for Fireside Or Pic-nic, Etc
Author: Games
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Pages : 256
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Pages : 956
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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