The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel / Jessica Richard.
"Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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| Summary: | "Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230278875 (hardback) 0230278876 (hardback) |