{"product_id":"9781526120557","title":"A cultural history of chess-players: Minds, machines, and monsters","description":"This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109026873584,"sku":"9781526120557","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781526120557_p0.jpg?v=1763740692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781526120557","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}