Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"
Slantwise Moves is an important contribution to a materialist history and analysis of the ideological work of amusement cultures in the United States . . . While scholars narrowly focused on video games may find the promise of some terms unfulfilled, Guerra presents a nuanced set of readings that has something to offer every scholar working along on the diagonal line of literature, games, and history." *
Modern Philology *
"Guerra offers an important advance in thinking about games in relation to the major currents of American history. More than a reflection of ideology or a product of social relations, games are sites where individuals could rehearse and transform their repertoires of social life." *
American Journal of Play *
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Slantwise Moves recovers forgotten nineteenth-century games from obscurity and interprets them as part of a history of American selfhood or agency, reading them against and in relation to other nineteenth-century cultural productions. This important and original book will prove compelling for Americanists, especially scholars of nineteenth-century literature and the history of the book, but will also find readers among anyone with an interest in games and game studies." * Lisa Gitelman, New York University *
