Joyce E. Kelley received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she received a distinguished teaching award in 2013. She has published articles in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Children’s Literature, Victorians, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, and Politics, Identity, Mobility in Travel Writing. Her monograph Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body appeared from Ashgate in 2015.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresPermissionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Caution—Children at Play: Investigations of Children’s Play in Theory and Literature (Joyce E. Kelley) 1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth’s The Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain’s Writings (Alan Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)3 "Mammy, can’t you tell us sump’n’ to play?": Children’s Play as the Locus for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris (Jericho Williams)5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery’s Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)6 Katherine Mansfield’s Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein’s Toys (Michael Opest)8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House Series (Anna Lockhart)9 "I’m ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and the Healing Power of Children’s Play (Andy Clinton)10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)11 Children’s Play and Mental Illness in Children’s Literature and Film (Ian Wojcik-Andrews)12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe Giannakouros) Notes on ContributorsIndex

Joyce E. Kelley received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she received a distinguished teaching award in 2013. She has published articles in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Children’s Literature, Victorians, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, and Politics, Identity, Mobility in Travel Writing. Her monograph Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body appeared from Ashgate in 2015.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresPermissionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Caution—Children at Play: Investigations of Children’s Play in Theory and Literature (Joyce E. Kelley) 1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth’s The Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain’s Writings (Alan Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)3 "Mammy, can’t you tell us sump’n’ to play?": Children’s Play as the Locus for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris (Jericho Williams)5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery’s Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)6 Katherine Mansfield’s Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein’s Toys (Michael Opest)8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House Series (Anna Lockhart)9 "I’m ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and the Healing Power of Children’s Play (Andy Clinton)10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)11 Children’s Play and Mental Illness in Children’s Literature and Film (Ian Wojcik-Andrews)12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe Giannakouros) Notes on ContributorsIndex

Joyce E. Kelley received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she received a distinguished teaching award in 2013. She has published articles in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Children’s Literature, Victorians, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, and Politics, Identity, Mobility in Travel Writing. Her monograph Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body appeared from Ashgate in 2015.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresPermissionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Caution—Children at Play: Investigations of Children’s Play in Theory and Literature (Joyce E. Kelley) 1 "Fits of Vulgar Joy": Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordworth’s The Prelude (1805) (Alison W. Powell)2 Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain’s Writings (Alan Gribben and Sarah Fredericks)3 "Mammy, can’t you tell us sump’n’ to play?": Children’s Play as the Locus for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (Joyce E. Kelley)4 Words with Kids at Play: Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris (Jericho Williams)5 Idylls of Play: L. M. Montgomery’s Child-Worlds (Caroline E. Jones)6 Katherine Mansfield’s Children at Play (Janka Kascakova)7 The Buttons of the World are Round: Gertrude Stein’s Toys (Michael Opest)8 Playing Pioneer: Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House Series (Anna Lockhart)9 "I’m ready to play now, you guys!": J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and the Healing Power of Children’s Play (Andy Clinton)10 Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card (Tim Bryant)11 Children’s Play and Mental Illness in Children’s Literature and Film (Ian Wojcik-Andrews)12 "The trampoline of letters and words": Juvenile Linguistic Play in the Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel (Dorothy Wolfe Giannakouros) Notes on ContributorsIndex