Richard, Jessica Anne, 1974-
The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel [electronic resource] / Jessica Richard. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xi, 201 p. : ill. - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print . - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. .
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"--
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Gambling in literature.
Electronic books.
PR858.G32 / R53 2011
823/.5093579
The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel [electronic resource] / Jessica Richard. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xi, 201 p. : ill. - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print . - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. .
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"--
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Gambling in literature.
Electronic books.
PR858.G32 / R53 2011
823/.5093579
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