The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel
By: Jessica Richard
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230278875
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; English fiction; HISTORY / Social History; History and criticism; Gambling in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: The Gambling Culture of Eighteenth-Century Britain; title: 'Putting to Hazard a Certainty': Lotteries and the Romance of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (Sir Charles Grandison, The Excursion); title: Cheating, Calculation, and the Episodic Romance of Gambling (Hoyle's Short Treatise, Ferdinand Count Fathom, Amelia); title: The Gambling Man of Feeling: Sublime and Sentimental Gambling (Cecilia, The Adventures of David Simple, The Mysteries of Udolpho); title: The Lady's Last Stake: Camilla and the Female Gambler; title: Children's Games 'Abroad and at Home': Belinda, Education, and Empire; title: The Confidence Man: Persuasion and the Romance of Risk; title: Afterword: The Eighteenth-Century Risk Society; title: Works Cited; title: Index.