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050		4	_aPR858.G32 _bR53 2011
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100	1		_aRichard, Jessica Anne, _d1974-
245	1	4	_aThe romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel _h[electronic resource] / _cJessica Richard.
260			_aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; _aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2011.
300			_axi, 201 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aPalgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aGambling in literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
710	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aPalgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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