The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

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Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship betweenthe 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.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230307278

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Gambling Culture of Eighteenth-Century Britain
  8. 1 "Putting to Hazard a Certainty": Lotteries and the Romance of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
  9. 2 Cheating, Calculation, and the Episodic Romance of Gambling
  10. 3 The Gambling Man of Feeling: Sublime and Sentimental Gambling
  11. 4 The Lady's Last Stake: Camilla and the Female Gambler
  12. 5 Children's Games "Abroad and at Home": Belinda, Education, and Empire
  13. 6 The Confidence Man: Persuasion and the Romance of Risk
  14. Afterword: The Eighteenth-Century Risk Society
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index