Play in literature
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Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Play- A Playful Path (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), by Bernie DeKoven (PDF with commentary at CMU)
- No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007), by Tim Gill (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
- American Journal of Play (full serial archives)
- Bikey the Skicycle, and the Other Tales of Jimmieboy (New York: Riggs Pub. Co., 1902), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell
- Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- When Are We Happiest? or, The Little Camerons (sixth edition; Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848), by Louisa C. Tuthill
- Romps (including Romps in Town and Romps at the Seaside; London and New York: G. Routledge, ca. 1886), by Harry Furniss and Horace Lennard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Two Teaparties (New York et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1882), by Rosalie Vanderwater, illust. by Wilson De Meza (page images at Florida)
- American Journal of Play (full serial archives)
- American Journal of Play (full serial archives)
- American Journal of Play (full serial archives)
- Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games (c2010), by David Myers (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- The Art of Block Building (New York: The John Day Co., c1933), by Harriet M. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paper Sculpture: Its Construction and Uses for Display and Decoration (New York: Marquardt and Co., c1944), by Paul McPharlin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paper Folding for the Mathematics Class (Washington: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, c1957), by Donovan A. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'Art de Construire les Ballons en Papier (in French; Paris: C. Mendel, ca. 1884), by Eugène Fabry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Art and Play Therapy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1954), by Emery I. Gondor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
- Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
- Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
- Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
- The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
- Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)
- Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
- Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
- Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
- Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
- The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
- Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
- The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
- A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
- A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
- Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. by Kenneth M. Price and Raymond George Siemens (HTML at mla.org)
- A Handbook to Literature (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Odyssey Press, c1960), by William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
- Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Heroes and Heroines of Fiction (two volumes in one; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, c1914-1915), by William S. Walsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (title page missing, but apparently the 1881 Lee and Shepard edition), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (1968 facsimile reprint; original publication Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1873), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (based on 1894 edition), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
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