The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel /

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Author / Creator:	Richard, Jessica Anne, 1974-
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description:	xi, 201 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subject:	English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Gambling in literature. English fiction. Gambling in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8440488

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ISBN:	9780230278875 (hardback) 0230278876 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of 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: Hoyle's Short Treatise, Ferdinand Count Fathom, Amelia
3. The Gambling Man of Feeling: Sublime and Sentimental Gambling, Cecilia, The Adventures of David Simple, The Mysteries of Udolpho
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

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