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