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The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel
- Title
- The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel / Jessica Richard.
- Author
- Richard, Jessica Anne, 1974-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 201 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Works Cited -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-3032
- ISBN
- 9780230278875 (hardback)
- 0230278876 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011008046
- OCLC
- YBP 2011008046
- Author
- Richard, Jessica Anne, 1974-
- Title
- The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel / Jessica Richard.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Series
- Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of printPalgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-3032