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• Gilles Bertheau
  Video Introduction to Issue 11 [Full text]
  Are You Game?
• Joyce Goggin
  Play and Games in Fiction and Theory [Full text]
• Olivier Hercend
  The Agonistics of Reading: Playing, Gambling, Committing [Full text]
• Jean-Jacques Lecercle
  Consequence and Consequences in Jane Austen [Full text]
• Bastien Meresse
  “’Tis a reckless Debowch of a Game”: Chance and Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels [Full text]
• Julie Assouly
  “Gambling and women don’t mix”: Female Gamblers and the American Dream in Film [Full text]
• Winslow Homer, Ambrose Andrews, Briton Rivière, Sharon Lockhart, Anonymous, Marcus Gheeraerts I, Gawen Hamilton, Sir John Everett Millais, Thomas Rowlandson, Marion Post Wolcott, John Rogers, Mary Sargant Florence, Thomas Anshutz, Sir William Reynolds-Stephens and George Cruikshank
  Graphic Interlude [Full text]
  Are you Game?
• Louise Fang
  “The fair play of the world”: Games and Machiavellian Politics in Shakespeare’s King John [Full text]
• Pierre Le Duff
  ‘Ev’ry Gamester winneth by the sport’: George Wither’s Emblem Lottery (1635) [Full text]
• Nicolas Sigoillot
  From Cardboard Settings to Ludo-anthropological Experiences: The Failures and Successes of Victorian London’s Adaptations in Video Games [Full text]
• Jeni Peake and Alexandra Reynolds
  “There’s a sniper on that hill!”: Gaming in English as a Global Language Environment [Full text]

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  • Clarisse Godard Desmarest
    Churches, City and National Identity in Mid-19^th Century Edinburgh [Full text]
  • Alexandra Poulain
    Blue Balls of Fire and the Ethics of Spectatorship: Verlaine, Yeats, Beckett [Full text]

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