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English literature --- English literature - 19th century --- English literature - 20th century

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Criminals. --- Criminals--England--London--Fiction. --- English literature--19th century.

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English literature --- Romanticism --- English poetry --- English literature - 19th century. --- English literature - 18th century. --- Romanticism - Great Britain.

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Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Pla

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism. --- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Play in literature. --- English literature --- Play in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism.

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English literature --- French literature --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- History and criticism --- English literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- French literature - 19th century - History and criticism