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Paperback Toys in the Age of Wonder: Science Fiction, Society and the Symbolism of Play Book
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ISBN: 0786443928

ISBN13: 9780786443925

Toys in the Age of Wonder: Science Fiction, Society and the Symbolism of Play

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By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation. In these decades, too, a new type of wonder tale was being brought to maturity by a Poe-inspired Jules Verne. The modern wonder tale's highly-charged vision expressed the hopes and the fears, and the delights and the traumas, engendered by "new worlds idealism"--that Western...

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