１８世紀イギリス文学とギャンブル The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print) （1ST）

Richard, Jessica

Palgrave Macmillan（2011/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 201 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230278875
• DDC分類 823.5093579

基本説明

This book clarifies 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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 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 Works Cited Index