Slantwise moves: games, literature, and social invention in nineteenth-century America

Introduction. On the uses and abuses of games

Both in and out of the game: reform games and avatar selves

A fresh and liberal construction: state machines, transformation games, and algorithms of the interior

The power to promote: configuration culture in the age of Barnum

Social cues and outside pockets: billiards, Blithedale, and targeted potential

The net work of not work.