Chance and the eighteenth-century novel
Subtitle: realism, probability, magic
By: Jesse Molesworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521191081
Subjects: Magic in literature; History and criticism; Chance in literature; Realism in literature; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chance, plot, magic. Fortune's fools : the novel and the lottery fantasy ; Two predictions on the fate of gambling and probability theory; title: Epistemologies of the eighteenth-century novel. Defoe and the statistical (il)logic of the novel ; Narrative games in the novels of Henry Fielding ; Humean fictions : Amelia, Tristram Shandy, and the problem of induction; title: The return of coincidence. Natural preternaturalism : the Gothic novel and the rise of tarot cartomancy.