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Introduction - recreation and representation: economies of play; thematerial unconscious; spacing - realism, recreation, romance, Stephen Crane.Part 1 Recreational space - methodism and its discontents: rational andirrational recreation; the pleasure machine; visibility; the machine in thegarden. Part 2 Deep play: recreational time; the economic problem ofmasochism; melodramatic economy; the chance-thing and the logic of newhistoricism. Interlude - the agony of playing in "the open boat". Part 3 Thewar game - bodies in motion, bodies at rest: spectatorship; embodiment; thephotographic body; exquisite correspondents. Part 4 American childhood andStephen Crane's toys: producing the child; producing the toy; economies ofchildhood; recreational realism. Part 5 Monstrosity: museums, monsters,minstrels; typology, faciality, monstrosity; teratology in the field ofvision; monsters and modernism. Coda: uneven development; Henry's fate.