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100 1  Richard, Jessica Anne, |d1974- |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002045025
245 14 The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel / |cJessica Richard.
260    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York : |bPalgrave Macmillan, |c2011.
300    xi, 201 p. : |bill. ; |c23 cm.
490 1  Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.
505 0  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.
520    "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.
650  0 English fiction |y18th century |xHistory and criticism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103099
650  0 Gambling in literature. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004317
830  0 Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
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