{"product_id":"slantwise-moves-9780812250619","title":"Slantwise Moves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlantwise Moves\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" * \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Play\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlantwise Moves\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405738484055,"sku":"9780812250619","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250619.jpg?v=1730493441","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slantwise-moves-9780812250619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}