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Subject(s)

• English fiction—18th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Gambling in literature [Browse]

Series

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9780230278875 (hardback)
• 0230278876 (hardback)

LCCN

2011008046

OCLC

698330447

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