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Preface; Prologue: 'The game and the nation'; Part I. Sportsmen andGamesmen in the Nineteenth Century: 1. Play, sport and western mythmaking; 2.Play, sport and southern honour; 3. Gender and the game; Part II. Raising theStakes: 4. Playing the game of life; 5. 'The game' in business fiction; 6.Desperate players and the sport of the gods; Part III. Twentieth-CenturyLegacies: 7. Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction; 8. In thewake of Moby-Dick; 9. The 'great games' of politics and business; Part IV.Holy Play and the Counterculture: 10. Transcendental play and the theology ofsentimentalism; 11. Play and the counterculture in the 1920s; 12. From beatsand hippies to the new age; Epilogue; Notes; Index.