Title: The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel
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"--
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, English fiction, HISTORY / Social History, History and criticism, Gambling in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Gokken, Bellettrie, Engels
Time periods: 18th century