Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: A Modern Sensation 1
5. Part I. The World in Play
6. 1. Mapping the World in Play 13
7. Part II. Portraits
8. 2. Fair Play in an Ugly World: The Politics of Nautical Melodrama 51
9. 3. Toying with the Future in Wuthering Heights 85
10. 4. A Joy on the Precipice of Death: Muir and Stevenson in California 117
11. 5. Wilde’s Folly 144
12. Notes 173
13. Index 199