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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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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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain -- 'Putting to Hazard a Certainty': lotteries and the romance of gambling in eighteenth-century England: Sir Charles Grandison, The Excursion -- Cheating, calculation, and the episodic romance of gambling: Hoyle's Short Treatise, Ferdinand Count Fathom, Amelia -- The gambling man of feeling: sublime and sentimental gambling: Cecilia, The Adventures of David Simple, The Mysteries of Udolpho -- The Lady's Last Stake: Camilla and the Female Gambler -- Children's games 'Abroad and at Home': Belinda, education, and empire -- The confidence man: Persuasion and the Romance of risk -- Afterword: the eighteenth-century risk society. | |
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