id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 7p88cf97q5g Melissa D. McCoul Come Play with Me: Theorizing Child's Play, Narrative World-Building and Imaginative Embodiment in Literature, 1749-1911 1904 .txt text/plain 344 10 47 By sidestepping the question of what's really happening when children play, I am advocating for a reading sees both play processes and the objects, stories, and bodies that are wrapped up in such processes, as important sites of meaning. This dissertation argues that children's authors of the long nineteenth century imagined play as a creative way for child readers, collaborating with adults, to imbue physical reality with narratives which did not exist before. cache/7p88cf97q5g.txt txt/7p88cf97q5g.txt