The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel [electronic resource] /
Richard, Jessica.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern.
Social history.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Social History.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.